CNET301 – Network Design and Test – Project Assignment– F 2023

CNET301 Network Design and Test –F 2023

Group Assignment*
[*membership limited to a max of four per group]

Request for Proposal (RFP) Due Week #12

Small Network at Tech Institute- Critical Issues

and Planning a Migration
Total Weight of this assignment: 20%
For more information on design process, critical issues in preparing migration plans, or
legacy components, please refer to the:

Course textbook
CCDA 200-310 Official Cert Guide, 5th Edition
By Anthony Bruno, Steve Jordan
Published Jun 24, 2017 by Cisco Press. Part of the Official Cert Guide series.
ISBN-13: 978-1-58714-454-7

Objectives:
There are three key objectives of an effective design:
1. Design needs to support the goals and policies of the organization.
2. Technologies proposed should meet the current application requirements
and provide for growth of the organization in the future.
3. The proposed design should stay within the allocated budget.
This exercise will sharpen focus on how to establish a priority list from a list of
requirements, under objectives 1, 2 above, in such a way that the overall costs stay
within the allocated budget in 3 above.
Migration has to be planned over a period of TWO Years.

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Tech Institute/ IT Infrastructure- KEY Data:

The network, now outdated, has grown over the year in an unplanned way without much
technical thought. Each Campus has separate agreement with an ISP for internet
connectivity.

All Routers are Cisco 2500 series and all Switches are Cisco 2600 series mostly running
older version IOS 11.x. The 10 Mbps Ethernet is shared with each Classroom via 3COM
legacy HUBs – not shown in the diagram

Campus-A has 4 classrooms and houses only School of Media (500 students)
Campus-B has 12 classrooms, houses three Schools: Business (2000 students),
Engineering (3000 students) and Health Sciences 1500 students)
Campus-C has 8 classrooms, and houses School of General Arts (350 students), and IT
services (support staff of 20).
Campus-D has 4 classrooms and houses School of Aviation (100 students).

Overall the Institute has 7450 students- this number includes continue education
students, 50 support staff, 50 instructors and about 20 Managers.

Each Classroom has 32 P4 1GHz PCs with 1 GB RAM and legacy NIC cards

The Server Farm consists of six servers which are located at Campus-C. Each of these
servers is a 1 GHz Intel XEON with 1 GB RAM and a mix of legacy NICs

Campus-B and Campus-C are connected via a dedicated T1 link from a local ISP.
Campus-A, Campus-C and Campus-D have a contract with a local ISP for internet
access.

All Campus User Groups who have been surveyed regularly, have constantly complained
about the slow logins, slow downloads, and frustratingly slow response from the
network services such as database enquiries, printing and internet surfing.
Campus User Group strongly lobbied that printing be made more user-friendly in all
Campuses.
.

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Users of the network were asked to complete an e-survey to evaluate the current
performance of the network. A summary of the users’ feedback is shown here:

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Summary of Traffic Analysis:

1- Generally at Campuses A, B, and D, the network is composed of a switched

backbone architecture, in which traffic from all classrooms is fed into a
central switch. At Campus-C, however, combined traffic from neighboring
classrooms and staff office wings is fed into two central switches.
2- LAN Performance: The LAN Segment Utilization Table below presents the
bandwidth utilization of the different segments of the network at Campus-C.
However, this could be applied to all other locations.

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LAN Performance

Requirements, Issues, Constraints

Business Requirements:

1- As per directive from the senior team, all Campuses would be WiFi friendly as
well as all Campuses and their lab areas would be printer friendly- i.e. one can
request printout from ANY station ANYWHERE and be able to get it from ANY
printer ANYWHERE.
2- All users at each campus should have the option to access college network via
WiFi Hot Points within the built up areas and the appropriate access for users
which must be grouped as “management & staff”, “students” and “guests”.
3- Plans to implement “Voice over IP” phone sets to the desktop, but the vender or
technology has not been selected- you are free to recommend any suitable vendor
in your report.

Technical Requirements:

1- Redesign the whole network using the concepts of Core layer,

distribution layer and Access layer as applied to Enterprise networks.
Plan for system Bandwidth for the users to accommodate for future growth
which is estimated at 20% per year at all Campuses.

3- Upgrade several of the server hardware platforms to provide performance

and fault tolerance as seen necessary at all Campuses.

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4- Implement an Internet firewall to provide security wherever is deemed

necessary.

5- Provide a more robust uninterruptible power supply, UPS, system to

safeguard against power failures for key infrastructure equipment and
servers.

6- Provide secure remote login connections for 400 staff, who are mobile and
work remotely from outside their offices. Make a suitable choice of
technologies in this case.

7- Provide only an ESTIMATED count of how many WiFi Access Points be

needed at each campus to meet the item#2 under the business requirements.
Submit for each of the campuses A, B, C and D, a logical design
schema/diagram for WiFi Acess Points, and Wireless LAN Controllers.

Technical Constraints:

1. Sub-divide and isolate the corporate network access from classrooms and the
internet at Campus-C.

Business Cost Constraints:

A budget CDN $ 40,000 per year has been approved for this migration.
Project will cover two years, so the total budget is CDN 80,000.

Following could be treated as a wish-list from the IT support team- and only
implemented if budget permits:
i. Overall a Gigabit high availability/ high resilience architecture
based on switched VLANS.
ii. Recommend suitable software technology for managing all
assets in such a way that should improve service response time
and reduce costs as well as reduce current levels of human
resource. At present the IT department makes use of a help-
desk ticket system and thirty workers to address user enquiries.
iii. Ensure the security and integrity of data.
iv. Provide statistics on the per-semester use of software
applications software across the system.

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Request for Proposal (RFP)

You are invited to submit proposals addressing these issues by

preparing a Migration Plan over two years, within the allowed
capital budget.
Marking Scheme for Project Presentation and Implementation 50 %
 Interaction
 Clarity
 Timing
 Knowledge
 Quality of information/Quality of description
 Pros and Cons/Advantages and Disadvantages/Strength and Weakness
If you do not present, you do not get any Mark
Marking Scheme for Project Report 50 %

a- [8 marks] A full IP addressing scheme covering all classroom PCs and associated
infrastructure devices, routers, switches, access points etc, at each Campus. You can use the
following address ranges for creating suitable sub-nets in your proposal. It is required that
you use only VLSM for subnetting.
For router serial links use address range: 10.10.10.0 /24.
For switched VLANs use address range: 172.16.X.0 /24, where X=1-50
For Wireless VLANs use address range: 192.168.Y.0 /24, where Y=1-50

b- [6 marks] Network diagram(s) for BOTH proposed years of migration, including

diagrams for the proposed WiFi APs and WLCs at each campus.

c- [6 marks] Design Document details of hardware and/or software at each proposed stage
of migration

d- [4 marks] separate Cost summaries in CDN $, for BOTH years

e- [2 marks] Clear project implementation plan showing appropriate dates/times when

migration will be carried out.

f- [4 marks] Report style: A title page, a summary, conclusions and bibliography. Course
Title page
1- should have:report
A project Team Names and IDs;
in printed formProject Assignment in
and submitted Title ; Course
a folder Title/
– the date
report

[Total=Writing
should follow the OACETT Technical Report 30 marks]
Guidelines

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There is no max limit on number of pages.

3. Due dates and submission process:

Project report will be due by Week#12.

An electronic copy of the same final report must be uploaded to the DROPBOX
at e-Centennial course folder by 11:59 pm.
GROUP PRESENTATIONS WILL TAKE PLACE IN WEEK#13
Clarification:
There should be only ONE connection to ISP at Campus C. All other campus should be
connected to the Distribution Backbone at Campus-C, via either Ethernet cables or Fiber
Optic Cables (depending on distance between the two campuses).

Wireless VLAN are named WLANs !

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