Assignment
Brief Scenario
The BetaCommunication Ltd is a medium sized telecommunication company specialising in telecom products for a niche market. Until now, the company has relied heavily on standalone PCs and individual dial-up access to the internet for their work.
This year, the company won a lucrative contract and have decided to move to new premises and build their contemporary Local Area Network (LAN) system. As part of building a LAN project, the Managing Director recruited you as a Network Consultant to design, build and implementthe company's LAN with consideration to their limited budgetdue to the credit crunch.
Your ISP has given you a ‘Class C' IP address for your company. ‘Class C' IP address will require to be sub netted to allow for the functions of different departments. Beta Communication Ltd hasthree separate buildings. You must connect these three buildings with a bandwidth no less than 10 Mbps.
As part of the security, all general staff of the company will not have access to FTP andWeb services from their PC. Additionally, Telco products manager and Network Infrastructure (NI) manager will have access to FTP services only. Different functional part of the companyare as follows:
First Building:
1st Line Support
There are five 1st line support technicians for their products in the company. All of them use separate PCs for their work. They use high power workstations for their work. Theyrequire twolarge servers, one FTP and other Web serverfor theirdepartment's datastorageand applications.
Network Infrastructure Manager
The NI Manager would like to have powerful PC so that he/she can view their Management Information Systems (MIS). NI Manager would also like the ability to take part in videoconferencing. The manager has stated that much of the information he/she will be using is to remain confidential.
Telco Products Manager
Telco Manager takes care of the company's Telco products. He/she use one room. As this department deals with large amount of information, the communications for this department must be secure and not reach any of the rest of the network. This room requires one large server for applications and data.
2nd Building:
Ordering and Delivery
This department is in one room and is responsible for shipping the manufactured items to their purchasers. There are three staff here and their work will mainly involve addressing parcels and contacting customers by email. The company will require a web server to accommodate their new website for online ordering.
General Staff
All other staff will require a new PC complete with a suitable office environment operating system (unless stated otherwise) and access to a networked printer. Each floor has their own laserprinter.Allcommunicationsbetweenfloorsmustbesecurefromeavesdropping.
Third Building:
Only Managing Director and PA will use this floor and they both would like to have a powerful PC, a colour laser printer anda projector. Assume that you have been appointed as Network Consultant to this company and you are required to design the LAN in simulated environment, write the documentation accordingtothe tasks mentioned below and submit it in report format style to Managing Director of Beta Communication LTD.
TASKS 1 TO 4
TASK 1 to TASK 4: You are required to follow the instructions as specified towards each task and support with research by using supportive materials like books, websites, etc., and give feedback on the findings by relating your arguments to the relevant case study as specified towards each task. Your report should fully follow the Harvard Referencing model.
LO1 Understand networking principles
The objective for this task is to address and exhibit understand networking principals.
You are required to carry out research by using supportive materials like books, websites, etc., and give a feedback of the findings on all assessment criteria in task 1. The answers need to be reflected to the given case study.
Task 1
A.C 1.1 Discuss the benefits and constraints of different networking systems, types and topologies.Analyse and clearly identify the requirements of the system for this network in order to convince the management of the given case study company.
A.C 1.2Evaluate the impact of current network technology, communication and standards for the given case study company.
A.C 1.3Discuss how protocols enable the effective utilization of different networking systems.
LO2 Understand networking components
Task 2
The objective for this task is to address and exhibit understand networking components.
You are required to carry out research by using supportive materials like books, websites, etc., and give a feedback of the findings on all assessment criteria in task 2. The answers need to be reflected to the given case study.
A.C 2.1 discuss the role of software and hardware components for the given company case study.
A.C 2.2 discuss server types and selection requirement for the given company case study.
A.C 2.3 discuss the inter-dependence of workstation hardware with network components
LO3 Be able to design networked systems
Task 3
The objective for this task is to address and exhibit understand networking components and be able to design a network systems for the given case study. You are required to carry out research by using supportive materials like books, websites, etc., and give a feedback of the findings on all assessment criteria in task 3. The answers need to be reflected to the given case study.
A.C 3.1Design a network system diagram using MS Visio or any other tools of your choice for the given case study. In the design you should consider current and future provisions in terms of user requirements and the network infrastructure itself.
A.C 3.2Evaluate the design you have produced for 3.1 is validated in terms of user feedback and other key factors e.g. future provision and use of proposed technology
LO4 Be able to implement and support networked systems
Task 4
The objective for this task is to address and exhibit understand of networking by implement and support network systems for the given case study. You are required to carry out research by using supportive materials like books, websites, etc., and give a feedback of the findings on all assessment criteria in task 4. The answers need to be reflected to the given case study.
A.C 4.1Implement a network systems based on the proposed design. You are required to use means of simulation software, establish a network according to the design in task 3.
A.C 4.2Test network systems to meet user requirements. Your testing includes functionality of the network to ensure that your developed network will operate seamlessly in a physical environment so that it can satisfy user requirements.
A.C 4.3Document and analyse test result against expected results. While carrying out task 4.2, the testing of the network has produced a number of results. List the results you have found in task 4.2 by contrasting them with your expected results.
A.C 4.4Recommend potential enhancement for the networked systems. Your discussions should include how your developed network will cope with future changing needs and should address possible enhancements of your network to satisfy needs of changing future environment.
A.C 4.5Design a maintenance schedule to support the network system. Your maintenance schedule should address various factors likepersonnel allocation, backup and recovery policy, maintaining security & integrity; and general administration to support the users.
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