Assessment - Network requirement analysis and plan
Purpose of the assessment - Main objectives of this assignment is to enable student to understand networking devices, gather requirements for a given business case study and plan a network design.
After successful completion of this assignment, students should be able to:
a. Provide examples showing the significance of internetworking for contemporary organisations.
b. Discuss the role of internetworking to support business and technical goals through planning and design.
c. Describe architectural internetworking designs for the business, information, technology, and application domains.
Assignment 1
Specification
Business case study: Network design proposal for casino
Description
The project aims to design a network for a casino. The casino has 5 floors including the ground floor. The ground floor has a lobby area. Each floor also has a lobby area. There are 40 rooms in each floor, each of which has a network point to which the guest PC is connected. The casino network has two servers which are used by the staff. A high speed internet connection is available which is to be shared by the guest and staff network. There is a total of 25 staff in the casino based at the ground floor.
Write a report with the following contents
Project Scope
Project hardware requirements
- Name of the network device with manufacturer's name, series, model and ports
- Type of the cables
- Name of the server, PC with specification such as operating system, RAM, hard disk etc.
Network Design in Netsim (You should not use packet tracer)
Network device configurations
a. Switch configuration:
- set hostname as your name
- set system clock to Mar 2016 5:45pm
- display the name of the file and version of IOS
- display the name of the interfaces
- display 6 IOS modes
b. Router configuration
- set hostname as your family name
- set system clock to May 2017 1:45pm
- display the name of the file and version of IOS
- display the name of the interfaces
- display 6 IOS modes