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“Architects Incorporated” is a newly formed organisation founded as a result of the merger of four companies. You have been employed as the Network Manager. As part of your functions, you are expected to design the new organisation network and implement your design in order to guarantee networking resources to the organisation.
The organisation has leased two two-storied buildings situated on 10 square miles of nature reserve park. The distance between each of the buildings is approximately 500 meters. A river traverses the park, and steel bridges give access from one side of the river to the other.
The structure of the organisation is as follows:
Departments:
With the exception of the Canteen, all other employees will have their own PC connected to the company network, intranet and the Internet.
Servers are going to be deployed in order to host shared files and central software applications, in addition to hosting central databases, e-mail facilities and Web services. It is your decision where to locate them.
Network printers should be accessible at least one per department, although, large departments should have a ratio of 1 printer per 15 employees. Please be aware that other printing devices might be needed depending on the characteristics of individual departments.
1- Explain the requirements gathering process and the assumptions you will take in the present scenario in order to design the network. (Provide relevant diagrams illustrating your assumptions, including floor plans).
2- Assuming a company growth of 50 % in the next 5 years, design the computer network for the organisation including:
a) Physical and logical topology designs with IP addressing scheme
b) Devices needed (only type of device, nor vendor specific) and where will they be located.
3- Draw appropriate policies for the network traffic justifying your decisions and providing appropriate documentation.
4- Discuss network security threats for the organisation and evaluate possible solutions. Provide appropriate documentation, including device configurations if appropriate.
5- Design strategies and plans for network and performance monitoring and disaster management.
6- Brief report to the Board justifying your decisions.
7- Bibliography.
All the information should be presented in a folder with no more than 10 double sided A4 sheets of paper excluding diagrams and tables. There are no limits on the number of diagrams and / or tables included provided they are in the Appendices separate from the main body of the report.
NOTE: All information presented should be relevant to your scenario and consistent with your assumptions.
“Architects Incorporated” is a newly formed organisation founded as a result of the merger of four companies. You have been employed as the Network Manager. As part of your functions, you are expected to design the new organisation network and implement your design in order to guarantee networking resources to the organisation.
The organisation has leased two two-storied buildings situated on 10 square miles of nature reserve park. The distance between each of the buildings is approximately 500 meters. A river traverses the park, and steel bridges give access from one side of the river to the other.
The structure of the organisation is as follows:
Departments:
- Management: 23 employees including one manager per department 35
- Human resources: 10 employees 15
- Finance: 12 employees 18
- Marketing: 5 employees 8
- Design: 150 employees 225
- Development: 200 employees 300
- Quality assurance: 25 employees 38
- Computer Network services: 10 employees 15
- Library: 4 employees 6
- Canteen: 5 employees 8
With the exception of the Canteen, all other employees will have their own PC connected to the company network, intranet and the Internet.
Servers are going to be deployed in order to host shared files and central software applications, in addition to hosting central databases, e-mail facilities and Web services. It is your decision where to locate them.
Network printers should be accessible at least one per department, although, large departments should have a ratio of 1 printer per 15 employees. Please be aware that other printing devices might be needed depending on the characteristics of individual departments.
1- Explain the requirements gathering process and the assumptions you will take in the present scenario in order to design the network. (Provide relevant diagrams illustrating your assumptions, including floor plans).
2- Assuming a company growth of 50 % in the next 5 years, design the computer network for the organisation including:
a) Physical and logical topology designs with IP addressing scheme
b) Devices needed (only type of device, nor vendor specific) and where will they be located.
3- Draw appropriate policies for the network traffic justifying your decisions and providing appropriate documentation.
4- Discuss network security threats for the organisation and evaluate possible solutions. Provide appropriate documentation, including device configurations if appropriate.
5- Design strategies and plans for network and performance monitoring and disaster management.
6- Brief report to the Board justifying your decisions.
7- Bibliography.
All the information should be presented in a folder with no more than 10 double sided A4 sheets of paper excluding diagrams and tables. There are no limits on the number of diagrams and / or tables included provided they are in the Appendices separate from the main body of the report.
NOTE: All information presented should be relevant to your scenario and consistent with your assumptions.
