Network Planning and Support
Assignment 1:
Design a LAN for an Automobile Company
Please read the scenario carefully before you answer the questions that follow. You may need to make some assumptions in order to design your network and critically discuss your planning and design decisions.
A Design Company is designing new models of automobile. This company has 250 people working in several departments: Design Department (DD); Simulation Department (SD); Accounting and Finance Department (AFD) and Business and Human Resource Department (B&HRD). Each of the four departments has a manager who is heading the department. However, Business and Human Resource Manager is also responsible for setting business goals and strategies. The four managers always communicate with each other in order to come up with a robust, efficient and cost-effective design that is also in line with the company’s business goal.
Design Department has 105 people working in the department. They are using CAD, VLSI, multimedia etc. applications. In addition, they are also using other collaborative tools to communicate with each other. The staff in the Design Department is spread over three floors of the same building.
62 people are working in the Simulation Department that is about 100 meter apart from the Design Department. They are using different software tools including Agent based simulation tools to simulate the design. A key role of the Simulation Department is to ensure that the interior as well as exterior of the design matches well. In addition, 4 people within this department also investigate health and safety issues involved in the design.
The Business and Human Resource Department has 53 people working in the department including a Manager. This department is located on the third floor of the Simulation Department. The Business Manager and two of his staff need to maintain highly secure data on their machines which should not be accessible by anyone else in the department and outside the department. The Business Manager and two of his staff need access to the server remotely.
26 people are working in the Accounting and Finance Department. The Accounting and Finance Department is in a different building which is about 2 KM apart from the Design Department and Simulation Department. The staff in the Accounting and Finance Department are usually using spreadsheet and some financial application packages. They have an Oracle database which contains highly secure data.
1. Design a LAN for the above company. Also provide a physical layout of the whole network infrastructure (use an appropriate software tool).
2. Describe who needs access to which server with reasonable assumptions. However, all the four departments need access to the mailing server.
3. Discuss a number of devices (e.g., router, switch and hub) which are required to build this network and place them at appropriate position in the diagram.
4. Discuss the cabling media that would be used to build different segments of the network.
5. Produce a strategy taking into account performance, security and reliability issues.
6. Conduct a critical evaluation of your design.
Report and Criteria
Your report should consist of not more than 10000 words /15 pages.
To obtain 40 % and above To obtain 70 % and above
• Your answer should cover all areas described in the questions.
• The answer might not be so critical but it will bring all the issues involved in planning and design.
• Some consideration should be given to the management, fault tolerant and scalability issues.
• Reasonable considerations should be given to the performance issues involved in the design of the network for Automobile company
• Covers all areas described in questions.
• Highlight all the possible issues related to the technologies under discussion.
• You may discuss an alternative solution in brief.
• • Fully consider and discuss management
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