INTERNSHIP REPORT ON ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED AT ELECTRONIC LAB

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A CAMPUS NETWORK

BY
HAFASHIMANA BIENVENU
Reg Number: BIT/20/0159

©………., 2023
 INTERNSHIP REPORT ON ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED AT RIZY TECH

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A CAMPUS NETWORK

By

HAFASHIMANA BIENVENU
Reg Number: BIT/20/0159

Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor Degree in

Information Technology (BIT-Network and Telecommunications)
School of Information Technology
International university of Equator

Bujumbura-Burundi
 DECLARATION
Student:

I, the undersigned, declare that this internship report is my original work and that it has not been
presented in any other University or Institution for academic credit.

HAFASHIMANA BIENVENU

ID Number: BIT/20/0159

Signature: ………………………………… Date: ……………………………………

Supervisor:

This internship report has been submitted for examination with my approval as University
supervisor.

MSc. JONATHAN NGUGI

Signature: ………………………………… Date: ……………………………………

 DEDICATION
This work is dedicated to my family.
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I wish to register my profound gratitude to Almighty God for the guidance, grace throughout my
life and wisdom needed to write this project report. I would also like to extend special regards to
my family for giving encouragement from the beginning to the end of this project; you are the
source of any success in my life. I am also grateful to all staff technic members of
ELECTRONIC LAB for making my industrial training interesting and educative.

I also take this opportunity to thank my brothers and friends for the assistance from the beginning
to the end of this project.

My greatest appreciation to the administration of International University of Equator especially to

the Head of Department MSc. ARAKA GEOFFREY and my supervisor MSc. JONATHAN
NGUGI

I will never forget the contributions each of you have made into my life and work.

Thank you.
 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Today, networks are embedded within our workplaces, homes and outside environment, making
possible the miraculous aspect of real-time access to information throughout the world. The
modern networks are designed to meet security, connectivity, and performance challenges while
enabling key IT initiatives. They also must scale, offer operational simplicity, and flexibly
accommodate new computing trends without an entire redesign. Networks are broadly classified
as LAN (Local Area Network), and WAN (Wide Area Network). LANs, which persist over a
relatively shorter distance are designed to allow personal computers to share resources, which can
include hardware (e.g., a printer), software (e.g., an application program), or data. A WAN,
which is a geographically dispersed collection of LANs, provides long-distance transmission of
data, image, audio, and video information over large geographic areas that may comprise a
country, a continent, or even the whole world.
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

DEDICATION............................................................................................................................................ii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......................................................................................................................iii
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.......................................................................................................................iv
LIST OF FIGURES..................................................................................................................................vii
LIST OF TABLES...................................................................................................................................viii
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS..................................................................................................ix
Chapter I. INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................11
I.0 Introduction.....................................................................................................................................11
I.1 Objectives of internship..................................................................................................................11
I.2 Internship Justification...................................................................................................................11
I.2.1 Justification for the choice of ELECTRONIC LAB..........................................................................11
I.2.2 Internship Domain Justification..................................................................................................12
Chapter II. DESCRIPTION OF ELECTRONIC LAB........................................................................13
II.1 Historic of ELECTRONIC LAB..................................................................................................13
II.2 Location of ELECTRONIC LAB.................................................................................................13
II.3 Organization setting......................................................................................................................13
II.3.1 Organizational structure of ELECTRONIC LAB............................................................................13
II.3.2 Vision.........................................................................................................................................14
II.3.3 Mission......................................................................................................................................14
II.3.4 Core values................................................................................................................................14
II.3.5 Strategic objectives....................................................................................................................15
ChapterIII. ACTIVITIES REALIZED AT ELECTRONIC LAB.......................................................15
III.1 Introduction.................................................................................................................................15
III.2 Basic network components..........................................................................................................16
III.3 Appreciation of activities realized at ELECTRONIC LAB......................................................21
III.4 Challenges faced...........................................................................................................................22
III.5 Experience gained........................................................................................................................22
 III.6 Strategies developed to solve/address challenges.......................................................................22
Chapter IV. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A CAMPUS NETWORK CASE OF VLAN
...................................................................................................................................................................23
IV.1 Introduction..................................................................................................................................23
IV.1.1 Background of the study.......................................................................................................23
First-Generation: From “Sharing” to “Switching”...........................................................................24
Second-Generation: Layer 3 Routed Switching.................................................................................24
IV.1.2 Problem statement..................................................................................................................24
IV.1.3 Objectives.................................................................................................................................25
IV.1.4 Research questions..................................................................................................................25
IV.1.5 Significance of solving this problem.........................................................................................25
IV.1.6 Scope of this study...................................................................................................................25
IV.1.7 Theoretical Framework............................................................................................................26
IV.1.8 Conceptual framework...........................................................................................................26
IV.2 Literature review..........................................................................................................................27
IV.2.1 LAN generalities.......................................................................................................................27
IV.2.2 Types of LAN Topologies..........................................................................................................27
IV.2.3 Comparison of LAN topologies.................................................................................................28
IV.3 Methodology.................................................................................................................................28
IV.3.1 Methods...................................................................................................................................28
IV.3.2 Techniques...............................................................................................................................29
IV.4 Presentation and Interpretation of the result...........................................................................29
IV.4.1 Tools and Environments used..................................................................................................29
IV.4.2 System design and simulation..............................................................................................30
IV.5 SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS............................................32
Summary............................................................................................................................................32
Conclusion..........................................................................................................................................33
References..........................................................................................................................................34
 LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: classification of transistors................................................................................................9
Figure 2: Integrated circuit.............................................................................................................10
Figure 3: 16X2 LCD Display.........................................................................................................11
Figure 4: 7 segments.......................................................................................................................12
Figure 5: Resistors..........................................................................................................................13
Figure 6: classification of resistors.................................................................................................14
Figure 7: capacitors........................................................................................................................14
Figure 8: Inductors.........................................................................................................................15
Figure 9: Oscilloscopes..................................................................................................................16
Figure 10: Multimeters...................................................................................................................17
Figure 11: Function generator........................................................................................................17
Figure 12: UPS synoptic diagram...................................................................................................24
Figure 13: conceptual framework...................................................................................................24
Figure 14: online UPS....................................................................................................................26
Figure 15: line-interactive UPS......................................................................................................27
Figure 16: standby UPS..................................................................................................................28
Figure 17: Comparison of UPS topologies.....................................................................................29
Figure 18: hybrid UPS....................................................................................................................32
Figure 19: R8C flowchart I2C communication for restart condition.............................................34
Figure 20: Power supply control circuit.........................................................................................35

LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: tools for building an electronic system..............................................................................6
Table 2: activities.............................................................................................................................6
Table 3: types of diodes....................................................................................................................8
Table 4: challenges and plan of action...........................................................................................19
 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
LAN: Local Area Network

VLAN: Virtual Local Area Network

VOIP: Voice Over Internet Protocol

NIC: Network Interface Card

WAP: Wireless Access Point

ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode

DNS : Domain Name Service

 Chapter I. INTRODUCTION
I.0 Introduction
The internship being a period during which a student works for a company or
organization in order to get experience of a particular type of work. We have been
doing our internship at ELECTRONIC LAB Bujumbura. The present report presents
the result of works executed in 1 month at the head office of ELECTRONIC LAB in
Bujumbura/Burundi in (Network and Maintenance center) department.
This internship began from 13/12/2022 up to 14/01/2023; it has been divided in 2 parts
theory related to practice and finally the practice on the field. During this internship,
we have been introduced to ELECTRONIC LAB and focused on some professional
knowledge whether in theory or practice where we have been informed about some
important details to be aware like troubleshooting electronic devices, cabling,
representation of electronic schemes, objects in IOT. We will talk in deep in chapter 2.
And before to conclude, we are going to talk about appreciation and issue found in
chapter 3.
TO sum up, we are going to make a short summary, conclusion and recommendations
towards institutions, students and companies in the last chapter.

I.1 Objectives of internship

The internship being a part of last activities of our academic year outside and inside the
university, it aimed to emphasizing the theory learned at university by including the
student to the professional life not only through practices but also by giving a glance at
team work and how to face some realities in professional life in his field of study.

I.2 Internship Justification

I.2.1 Justification for the choice of ELECTRONIC LAB

The choice at ELECTRONIC LAB as the organization to do my internship is based on:

 I have been convinced by their service through their collaboration with the learners,
 ELECTRONIC LAB is a company operating in the field of Networking and Software
as a center of learning and innovating.
 ELECTRONIC LAB provides the best QOS and is among companies that support the
work of young IT engineers by financing their projects.

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 I.2.2 Internship Domain Justification

Selecting an accurate internship domain is the best way for the student to acquire or to
gain new tracks and types of skills from learning. It was necessary for us to do the
internship in the concern of telecommunication and maintenance because, as usual, I am a
bachelor student in science of information Technology concentration of Network and
Telecommunications at IUE.
In addition, maintenance and telecom trying to solve the major problems we face, and that
is a good way to think about my career. How can I solve problem? What problem would I
like to solve? Etc.
So getting an internship in maintenance and telecom was the idea for me because I have
applied what I have learned at IUE.

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 Chapter II. DESCRIPTION OF ELECTRONIC LAB
II.1 Historic of ELECTRONIC LAB
ELECTRONIC LAB is a real international engineering HUB solidly created in Burundi -
Bujumbura, registered under the decree-law of Burundi according to the charter signed on
November 10, 2018 .A primary theme for this company is to frame innovative technologies,
increase the global impact of new technologies and contribute to society, ELECTRONIC
LAB opened its doors on January 10, 2018 with a workforce of 17 agents, and the capital was
of 100% private Belgian (Tech, 2018).
II.2 Location of ELECTRONIC LAB
ELECTRONIC LAB of Burundi is located in downtown Bujumbura, in the urban
commune of MUKAZA, Asian district in the Avenue of independence in the building HELA
office number 13 C. PB 2440 BUJUMBURA-BURUNDI, limited to North by the communal
office of MUKAZA, to the south by rue IMBO to the east by rue October 13 and to the west
by the avenue of factories (Tech, 2018).

II.3 Organization setting

II.3.1 Organizational structure of ELECTRONIC LAB

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 II.3.2 Vision

ELECTRONIC LAB develops and continues to improve their very important products in
order to promote new technology and promote the innovation of applications and HUB in
order to ensure the social and economic development of Burundi.

II.3.3 Mission

ELECTRONIC Lab’s mission is the creation, dissemination and preservation of technologies.

As a global center of technology excellence, ELECTRONIC Lab aims to enhance position as
one of the world's leading innovation and training centers and measure performance to the
highest international standards. To provide the most appropriate technologies and training
environment for the greatest welfare of staff and partners and to deliver an exceptional
business portfolio. Produce engineers fully equipped to achieve the highest personal and
professional standards.

II.3.4 Core values

The fundamental values of ELECTRONIC LAB constitute the fundamental convictions that
drive the company. These beliefs are essential and must be respected because they make the

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company visionary for the standards of behavior that define its culture. ELECTRONIC LAB
therefore defends the following fundamental values:
Teamwork:
Adopt a participatory approach in carrying out the Corporation's mandate.
Professionalism:
Maintain high standards of professionalism in carrying out the Company's mandate.
Innovation:
Use the latest and most appropriate technologies to achieve the objectives.
Transparency and Accountability:
Maintain clarity and simplicity in all company endeavors.

II.3.5 Strategic objectives

ELECTRONIC LAB 's objective is to offer quality products as a first necessity to customers
and to all ELECTRONIC LAB 's objective is to offer quality products as a first necessity to
customers and to all users of ELECTRONIC LAB 's services in the Burundian population in
general.

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 ChapterIII. ACTIVITIES REALIZED AT ELECTRONIC LAB
III.1 Introduction
Being received by the technic department of ELECTRONIC LAB, we executed several works
during the internship of which we began with a review on main notions of network and
telecom, after we did the measurement and calibration of some electronic components like
transistors, diodes, resistors, integrated circuits. This step was controlled by the main
technician and assisted by Eng. EMMANUEL.

All those works allowed us to discover how to develop the electronic system and how worked
some equipment, for which purpose they were using them. During our internship, we did two
parties, the first one in which we began with the review on main notions in electronic and
telecom, how to identify some equipment. The second part allowed going down on field and
practicing all things we learned.

Bellow, we will describe the works executed during the first part of our training. Generally,

Devices / User devices Interconnection devices

components
Switch , router, hub, server Computer , phones , printers, Cables, antennas, …
…

Table 1: tools for building a network system

ACTIVITIES
Introduction to ELECTRONIC LAB 1st week
Question-answer, explanation and sharing of 2nd week
experience
Understanding of network devices 3rd week
Creation of network sites 4th week

Table 2: activities

III.2 Basic network components

The network components are:

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 • The physical elements, or hardware such as a laptop, switch, router, wireless

access point, the cabling used to connect the devices, … etc.

The services, called software, that provide information in response to a request like email
hosting services and web hosting services.

Physical Components of the Network:

• End Devices or Hosts: These devices form the interface between users and
the underlying communication network. Examples of end devices are
Computers (work stations, laptops, file servers, web servers), Network
printers, VoIP phones, Mobile handheld devices, and … etc.

– A host device is either the source or destination of a message transmitted over

the network.

• Intermediary Network Devices: Intermediary devices connect the

individual hosts to the network and can connect multiple individual
networks to form an internetwork. Examples of intermediary devices are
switches, wireless access points, routers, firewalls, and … etc.

– These devices use the destination host address to determine the path that
messages should take through the network.

• Network Media: The medium provides the channel over which the
message travels from source to destination. The three types of media are

Copper, Fiber Optic, and Wireless.

Network Interfaces Card (NIC):

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 • NIC: is a device installed in a computer, printer, or any other network
component so they can be connected to a network.

Figure 1: NIC

• Client: The term client defines the device an end user uses to access the network.

Figure 2: client

• Server: A server provides resources to a network.

(Email, Web pages, or files) .

Figure 3: server
Hub:

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 • is a device that contains multiple ports to connect multiple computers or network

devices to each other. When a computer transmit data through a hub, the hub will
broadcast the data to all other computers attached to it.

Broadcast: the data are sent to every device on a network.

Figure 4: Hub

Switch : is a device that contains multiple ports to connect multiple computers or network
devices to each other. Unlike hub, switch can send the data to only the destined computer.

Figure 5 : Switch

Bridge: we can say that the bridge is the old version of the switch, where the bridge works
almost like the switch.

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 Figure 6: Bridge

Router: is a device whose primary purpose is to connect two or more networks and
determine the next network point to which the data should be forwarded toward its
destination.

Figure 7: Router

Wireless Access Point (WAP)

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 Figure 8: WAP

Media:

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 III.3 Appreciation of activities realized at ELECTRONIC LAB
I can honestly say that my time spent interning at ELECTRONIC LAB resulted in one of the
best internship of my life. Not only did I gain some skills (working in team, decision making,
sociability, etc.) and hard skills (identify each electronic component, calibration and
measurement, design an electronic system, cabling, etc.) but I also had the opportunity to
meet many fantastic people. Additionally, I felt like I was able to contribute to the company
by assisting and working on projects throughout the internship. This internship was also
intended to strengthen our theoretical baggage and practical knowledge in order to overcome
the various challenges in the professional career of the new information and communication
technology (NICT). The production of this document was a success, I would say, because we
were in possession of all the necessary data and consulting the Internet for the enrichment of
our work.

III.4 Challenges faced

During the internship, we faced many challenges like sudden power failure during practice;
delay in providing materials by the seller, sometimes the customers was not able to explain
how his device broke down.

III.5 Experience gained

Apart of theory gained at school, I have gained a quick theory, which introduced me with a
great understanding to practical of maintenance of devices. Apart of that, I have also gained
other experiences such as:

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  Discipline of time;
 Teamwork;
 Deal with unprepared circumstances on field;
 Designing an electronic circuit ;
 Cabling;
 Innovative and competitive spirit;

Above all, of that a great spirit of leadership, collaboration and cheerful heart.

III.6 Strategies developed to solve/address challenges

No Challenge Strategy/plan of action

1 Inadequate security Reinforcing security

2 High costs of materials Go directly and buy on site

3 A reluctance to talk to strangers Getting up the nerve to speak to

strangers

Table 3: challenges and plan of action

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Chapter IV. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A CAMPUS NETWORK CASE
OF VLAN
IV.1 Introduction
The growing demand for high-performance networks (i.e., high throughput and low delays
from end to end, a degree of fairness in accessing available channel bandwidth among active
users on the network, and service provisioning quality) has prompted network researchers to
develop network architectures capable of providing high-quality service to end-users. The
ability to sustain future expansions; dependable and scalable networks is an essential network
design factor for today's networks. This necessitates the designer to define the client's specific
circumstances, including current technology, application, and data architecture .
With the rapid increase in the network users for some schools due to the conduct of online
synchronous classes, the need to develop and upgrade the existing network design of the
campus. But the design of the network for one university is different from the others. Security
of the network is also one of the areas that need to consider in designing a campus network
design.

IV.1.1 Background of the study

. Since campus networks were first envisioned, they have used many technologies such as
token ring and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). Although the origin of campus
networks is not marked by a widely recognized epoch event, they have developed rapidly with
the birth of Ethernet and the rise of Ethernet switches.

Over the past few decades of development, campus networks have mainly been constructed
using Ethernet, with Ethernet switches being used as their core components. The following
sections start by exploring the origins of Ethernet, then summarize the developments and
changes of campus networks over the past 40 years, and finish by outlining the evolution
milestones of campus networks.

First-Generation: From “Sharing” to “Switching”

In 1980, IEEE released the IEEE 802.3 standard to define the physical-layer connection,
electrical signal, and Media Access Control (MAC) protocols. The release of this standard
signaled the birth of Ethernet technology. By using twisted pair connections, Ethernet was
more cost-effective and easier to implement than previous networking technologies.
Consequently, Ethernet quickly became the mainstream technology for campus networks.

Second-Generation: Layer 3 Routed Switching

In the 1990s, two ground-breaking inventions emerged in the network

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field: World Wide Web (WWW) and instant messaging software.

WWW was invented in 1989 and its use became widespread in the 1990s. Numerous websites
and homepages attracted much attention from the public, and people talked enthusiastically
about multimedia. Since its debut in 1996, instant messaging software quickly grew and found
widespread use because it incorporated the advantages of both telephone and email, and
people increasingly depended on various types of instant messaging software for their work
and personal life.

WWW required sufficient bandwidth, which was unable to be provided on a router-based

campus backbone network.

IV.1.2 Problem statement

The increase in the number of internet users on campus contributed to the current network
performance and reliability problems including the security of internet users in terms of data
privacy and security. It is best to design a network topology that will fit the need of the users.
The information age has had a significant impact on the development of campuses in our
country. The combination of cloud computing, big data, and the Internet of Things
technologies provides excellent technical assistance for the development of smart campuses.

IV.1.3 Objectives

IV.1.3.1 General Objectives

IV.1.3.2 Specific Objectives

This research seeks to fulfill the following specific objectives:

 Provide more control over the network;

 Protecting and secure the network;
 To access to information and resources.

IV.1.4 Research questions

 Is it possible to provide more control over the network?

 What is the importance of protecting and secure the network?
 How to access to particular information?

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 IV.1.5 Significance of solving this problem

This work is of triple interest:

Academic interest

The current research will introduce this new topic and serve as guide and resource in Campus
area network technologies for students.

Society interest

The result of this project will allow the development of the world.

Personal interest

This research will enhance our knowledge in Network and Telecom in general.

IV.1.6 Scope of this study

This research was conducted in Burundi, Bujumbura town, the research was focused on the
following main concepts:

IV.1.7 Theoretical Framework

The theoretical framework of the work is about all the lessons, which give different and clear
explanation of techniques to implement this technology.

Figure 1: CAN diagram.

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 IV.1.8 Conceptual framework

The conceptual framework will give us the relation established between variables of this
study.

Figure 2: conceptual framework

IV.2 Literature review

This section critically review the literature that talk about the implementation and design of
Campus area network.

IV.2.1 LAN generalities

• A LAN consists of a single shared medium to which many computers attach.

• The computers coordinate to access the medium and transmit packets.

• LAN eliminates duplication of messages when a computer wants to send a message to more
than one computer simultaneously.

• LANs are used mainly for local communications – For long distance communication, the
time spent to co-ordinate use of the shared medium becomes significantly higher than the time
required to send data. Note that the time required to communicate depends on the distance.

• Point-to-point connections are preferred for long-distance communication.

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 IV.2.2 Types of LAN Topologies

• Bus Topology – All Computers are connected to a single cable. – Any computer can send
data to any other computer. Computers need to co-ordinate their transmissions to avoid packet
collisions. – A signal sent by one computer travels down the cable and all the computers can
receive the signal.

• Ring Topology – Computers are connected in a closed loop. – Data sent by a computer is
passed from one computer to the next in the loop until the data reaches the destination
computer/ sender.

• Star Topology – Each computer is attached to a central point called a hub. – The hub
accepts data from the sending computer and delivers it to the destination computer.

IV.2.3 Comparison of LAN topologies

• Physical topology indicates how computers are connected to each other; whereas, logical
topology illustrates how the computers communicate with each other.

• The bus topology and star topologies are physically different; but, logically equivalent to
each other as a message sent from one computer is forwarded by the hub to all the other
computers connected to it.

• The bus topology can endure the failure of any computer; but, gets disconnected with any
break in the cable.

• The ring topology is susceptible to failure with break in the cable; but, it could be made
more fault tolerant with the use of a backup ring. – Ring topologies typically use a token to
grant access. There is only token in the ring at any point of time and the machine that gets the

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token is the only machine that can access the ring. If the machine crashes while holding the
token, the token is lost and has to be regenerated.

• The star topology is also susceptible to a single point of failure (hub); but, can survive the
failure of any individual computers and/or any links.

IV.3 Methodology
This section is now about to describe the exact techniques used to collect facts and data; all
tools (hardware and software) for simulation that was used during the simulation process.
This part is demonstrate how the specific objectives of the project were achieved. And tools
used to implement and test system.

IV.3.1 Methods

The analytical method

Analytical methods are defined as the set of techniques that allow us to know qualitatively
and / or quantitatively the composition of any material and chemical state in which it is
located. Analyze qualitatively and quantitatively the origin of an adhesive joint failure. For
the case of this study, this method allowed us to analyze the information gathered from the
different places in Bujumbura in order to fully understand the importance of the campus area
network.

The comparative method

Comparative research, simply put, is the act of comparing two or more things with a view to
discovering something about one or all the things being compared. This technique often
utilizes multiple disciplines in one study. For this study, this method allowed us to compare
the old system with the new system proposed in order to measure the contribution of the new
system.

The simulation method

A simulation is the execution of a model, represented by a computer program that gives

information about the system being investigated. The simulation approach of analyzing a
model is opposed to the analytical approach, where the method of analyzing the system is
purely theoretical. This method was used in this study to simulate our solution using some
hardware and software tools in order our proposed hypothesis.

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 IV.3.2 Techniques

As for the techniques, we had to resort the following:

 The interview technique: this allowed us to come into contact with our interviewees as
well as other people who allowed us to acquire additional information on our subject.
 The documentary technique which allowed us to use the various documents at our
disposal and work that speaks in one way or another or similarly to our research
subject.

IV.4 Presentation and Interpretation of the result

IV.4.1 Tools and Environments used

a. Hardware tools
Computer is a machine or device that performs processes, calculations and operations faced
on instructions provided by a software or hardware program. It has the ability to accept data
(input), process it, and then produce outputs.

b. Software tools
Cisco packet tracer is a network simulation tool.

IV.4.2 System design and simulation

This chapter is about the description of the system design and testing.

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Figure 14: LAN architecture

Configuration for Wi-Fi

Figure 15: WI-FI

Configuration of VLAN on academic switch and DHCP router

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Figure 16: VLAN

Configuration of DNS server

Figure 17: DNS config

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IV.5 SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This chapter presents the summary and conclusion derived in the conduct of the which is
“DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A CAMPUS AREA NETWORK”. It also
provides recommendations that can be pursued by the enterprises and students.

The current study, was taken up to investigate the impact of campus area network on the
African society especially in Bujumbura.

Summary

The findings of the study were summarized according to the statement of the problems in
chapter four.

How to access to particular information?

1. Is it possible to provide more control over the network?

Through this solution provided, it is possible to provide more control over the network on
different areas like industries, schools, hospitals .

2. What is the importance of protecting and secure the network?

The protection of equipment is the most important thing to do on the network site .

3. How to access to particular information?

By using the VPN , we can access to the particular information on the network.

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 Conclusion

In conclusion, our study proposed the use of technology to ensure wider access to better
education . Using the Collapsed-Core Network Architecture will provide the solution to the
ever-growing number of internet users on the campus with less cost and is easy to implement.
The proposed network design will enhance the internet connectivity of the campus to cater to
the needs of different offices and the welfare of the students. The implementation of the
DHCP server (Core Switch) will help the distribution of the connection on all access switches
in the design. Access switch will be installed per floor of the building to distribute connection
on all unmanaged switches per room. An unmanaged switch will be used to eliminate the
possible problems in terms of network expansion soon.

Recommendations

This part presents some recommendations deemed necessary for this study in various areas:

We recommend companies, organizations, schools , universities to create a campus area

network.

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network , Inc , 2009.
Todd Lammle, CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate study guide, john wiley 2009.
Network Topologies and LAN Design, Cisco Systems, 2000.
Cisco Systems, “Understanding Ether Channel Load Balancing and Redundancy On catalyst
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J. Kugathasan, Network Design Report. 2017.
B. Mulyawan, “Campus Network Design And Implementation Using Top Down Approach: A
Case Study Tarumanagara University.”

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