HS1011 Data Communication and Networks

Questions: Purpose of the assessment The purpose of this assignment is to exercise and develop skills required to analyse and design networks to address the need of clients.  Students will be able to: Discuss the need of electronic data communication and networking to achieve business goals. Explain and apply various networking and data communication technologies in the context of a specific business need. Evaluate and assess hardware and software requirements of a data communication and networking infrastructure. Define, prioritise and evaluate the requirement of the business to provide data communication and networking requirements. Understand, evaluate and describe importance of network and data communication for a business operation and assess and suggest troubleshooting suggestions for a data communication and networking problem. Requirements: The new campus has not yet been wired for the LAN or WLAN. However, it is envisaged that the new building would support a both wired & wireless networked office environment where each of the staff PC would be equipped with desktop video conferencing, VoIP alongside the usual business applications such as web, email, and regular office productivity packages. You must design the network requirements for Holmes Institute. As the network consultant, you will be required to develop a plan for the new campus network, including all costs, for all of the following: The type of media you propose to use. This must be adequate to allow for a 100% expansion of the campus’ network within 5 years, and must be sufficient for all bandwidth requirements for each Company site The cost of media chosen should be included as a cost per meter price. You must justify your choice of media. Remember this might include copper, fiber and wireless options. You have to design the network topology. At this stage, you have to provide evidence of the system setup by stating and overview network topology and details of every departmental network design. You are required to subnet the campus’ network IPv4 Address as appropriate. You will be required to provide summary tables with IP Address ranges for all hosts in your network. When allocating addresses you must allow enough addresses for the 100% Allocate one (1) printer for each 30 computers. Printers will have the last usable address/es for the subnet to which they belong. There will be a Server Network, the servers will be located in a separate subnet, and must be allocated static IPv4 Addresses within that network. The number of servers is not expected to grow. Hardware (such as routers and switches) should reflect expected usage. Therefore, low usage environments such as those for the Finance department, would require different hardware than high usage areas, such as those of the Student Services.