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Assessment of the business goals, a design of a new network to meet these goals, developing a new IP addressing scheme, and documenting network topology with Visio. Please see the document for more information. Need this before Midnight tonight CST.
NETW206 Course Project
For this project, you will be working in a team to redesign a campus area network for an
enterprise customer. You will be completing an assessment of the business goals, a design of a
new network to meet these goals, developing a new IP addressing scheme, and documenting
network topology with Visio. The complete project outline is found in this document.
At the beginning of class, the instructor will post the teams that will be made up of three or four
individuals (numbers may vary in some cases) that will form the basis of working on the
projects. There are several resources for working with teams outlined on the Course Project page
in the course shell. Your team will have discussion forums available each week and real-time
chat/meeting forums available in the course shell.
A team contract will need to be completed and uploaded to your professor in Week 1. It will not
be graded, but it has to be completed by each team member and uploaded into the Dropbox. The
Peer Review will need to be uploaded to the Dropbox in Week 4 by each team member. The
Week 4 Project Status report will need to be uploaded to the Dropbox in Week 4 by one team
member. The final Course Project and peer reviews are due in Week 7. Each team member will
upload to the Dropbox an end-of-project Peer Review in Week 7. Objectives
In this Course Project activity, you will demonstrate your ability to work as a team to design a
network upgrade to a current network based on the scenario outlined below. Your team will
document and justify your design, select and justify equipment selection, create an IP address
table, and create a Visio network diagram. Scenario
You are a network engineer for a medium-sized enterprise business with a campus area network
in place using EIGRP. The network consists of four buildings, each with LANs, which are
connected individually to the company headquarters building. The main IT communications
room is located in the headquarters building and includes most shared resources and the
connection to the ISP through a dedicated ISP router. Currently, the company is using LAN
technology to connect all the end systems within each building and WAN technology to connect
the buildings to the headquarters site.
Your team has been asked to design a proposal for a new network. Your team has been asked to
consider IPV6 for deployment now or in the future. Your team has identified the business goals
of the project and is in the process of outlining the technical goals and constraints needed for the
new network, designing the new network topology, and selecting the new equipment. Part of the
technical goals will be to justify your IGP protocol decision (for example: stay with EIGRP or migrate to OSPF), select all of the new LAN and WAN equipment, create a bill of materials for
your network, and create a Visio diagram of the CAN and each building. You will also devise a
basic security proposal for your network. The current network does make use of VLANs, STP,
and other network traffic options on the current LAN switches. Even with all of this in place, the
company has experienced bottlenecks. Your team would like to try and use EtherChannel as an
option for, at least, part of the network to see if it will lessen traffic congestion between your
access and distribution layer switches. In addition, the documentation at the access layer is
nonexistent and will have to be built. Your team will also need to create an IP addressing system.
Required Resources Visio software (this can be accessed via Citrix or downloaded from the student software
store if necessary.) Microsoft Word Internet research Step 1: Define the technical goals, constraints, and services required on the
new network.
For the CAN Project deliverables, make sure you include this information as you define goals
and constraints and list services required. Please outline in college-level paragraphs the final
decisions and justifications, you made for the technical goals, constraints, and services required
for the new network.
Justify your decisions based on the scenario. If you feel you do not have enough information in
the scenario to make a decision about a technical requirement, your team is free to decide on
additional details relevant to the network. Include these decisions in your justification and
document them for your final course deliverable.
Answer questions such as: EIGRP or OSPF? EtherChannel? Wireless LAN access? IPv4 only?
IPv6 inclusion now or in the future? Product selection? Design issue? What Information will be
important to include in an RFP? What have you decided to do about wireless networking access in
each building or LAN? Do you have any design or security concerns? Look at cost and cost per
connection; look at possible challenges like interference, security, speed, what kind of cable or
wireless connection to install for growth, how to plan for the future, and so on. Make sure to
show your justification and the scope of what you have decided your new network will look like.
Will your network addressing scheme continue to use IPv4? Or will you choose to use IPv6 in
some form for this upgrade now or in the future? How does this affect your equipment selection?
Was there any security measure your team planned on implementing?
References:
Document any references that you use in APA format in the deliverable document. The Cisco website is a good source of information. One Cisco discussion of campus networks can be found
at: http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=25259.
Try and peruse the IEEE Explore digital library and the Faulkner’s FACCTs databases from the
DeVry library website as general references for technology and networking. The databases are
available from the DeVry library site accessed via the student resources tab under Course Home. Step 2: EtherChannel: Is this a viable option?
Verify that your new switches can perform Ether Channel, (You can visit the “System
Requirements to Implement Ether Channel on Catalyst Switches” section of the Cisco website to
help with this part of the project. This site allows you to gather more information to determine if
EtherChannel is a good option for your new network.) Create a table that will outline at least the
following information. Number of ports allowed to bundled for an EtherChannel group Maximum group bandwidth supported by bundling the ports IOS version needed to support Ether Channel on the switch model Load balancing availability Load balancing configuration options Network layers supported for EtherChannel operation Please outline in college-level paragraphs any additional information you need to add regarding
selection of EtherChannel. Step 3: Select equipment for the upgraded company network. Design and
document the LAN and WAN topology for the upgraded company network.
For the CAN Project Deliverables, you will create a Bill of Materials/Equipment list that outlines
the specific router or switch selected and some information about its features to justify its
selection and placement in the network.
1. Network equipment: ROUTERS: Six Routers can be used including four building routers; one headquarters router; and one ISP router. 2. Network equipment: SWITCHES: Switches to support the LANS is as follows.
A. Two LANs per building router Two LANs with 490 hosts One LAN serving 110 hosts One LAN with 190 hosts Two LANS with 78 hosts One LAN with 58 hosts One LAN with 28 hosts B. One, three-host LAN assigned to the ISP router for server connectivity (DNS, Web, and TFTP). Please outline in a college-level paragraph any additional information you need to add regarding
equipment selection. Step 4: Devise the network addressing scheme and create a table that includes
the major IP address allocations.
Your team can select any RFC 1918 Class B address/private address range internally that will
accommodate the specifications outlined in the network scenario. What do you choose and why?
What specifications have you used based on each LAN, number of hosts, or WAN requirements?
Each host and LAN/WAN interface will need to be included. Your team will use VLSM
efficiently to conserve addresses and allow for scalability. ISP LAN connection will use a
different IPv4 network number to indicate Internet or telecommunications connectivity to the
servers.
For the CAN Project Deliverables, your team will be documenting this in a spreadsheet form and
including addressing information on your final network diagram. Please outline in a college-level
paragraph any additional information you need to add regarding the IP addressing scheme
developed.
NOTES:
There is no one right answer. However, you may want to use a mirrored addressing scheme
system at each location. What will your plan look like at each location? A line item in the table
might look like 10. 150. X. Y, with X and Y defining the physical/purpose such as building 1, IT,
and so on.
Define the addressing scheme to include what range you will assign network devices, such as
switches and routers, what range for the servers and static workstations, what range for the shared
printers, and what range for the DHCP scope for PCs and other end-user devices. What about
VLANS? What about WAN connections?
Use a table in Word or Excel to document. Remember to put information into the Visio diagram
of the new network. Step 5: Create the switch documentation table for the access layer switches in
your new network.
The network documentation was inherited from the original IT team and at the access layer of your network hierarchy it is virtually nonexistent. Because this is where redundant switches are
located, as well as the company servers, printers, and local hosts, it is important to have this on
hand and readily available.
Create your preliminary documentation and include access layer switches on the table. (If you do
not have a particular piece of information, such as a serial number, make sure to leave a space for
it so it is added once the equipment arrives on site.) Your team also needs to document switch
names, ports in use, cabling connections, and root ports, designated ports, and alternate ports,
and so on. Name and switch location General switch description Model, IOS version, and image name Switch serial number MAC address Ports currently in use Cable connections Root ports Designated ports, status, and cost Alternate ports, status, and cost Please outline in a college-level paragraph any additional information you need to add regarding
switch documentation. Step 6: Diagram the LAN and WAN network topology for the upgraded
company network.
Create a simple network topology using Visio software.
You will turn in a network diagram of the upgraded company network.
For the Week 4 milestone, your team will turn in a simple Visio logical diagram of network CAN
and each building.
You will add details, equipment, and IP addressing scheme for the final deliverable in Week 7.
Be sure to place the devices at the appropriate levels of the Cisco three-layer hierarchical model
design, including routers, switches, wireless APs, workstations, printers, and shared servers and
services. On one version of your network diagram, indicate the hierarchical layers with different
color coding and labels. Include the access layer, the distribution layer, and the core layer. The basic version of your Visio logical network diagram of the CAN and each building will be
added to the Week 4 Milestone deliverable. (You will cut and paste a copy of your current
working network diagram for the new network.)
Note: In Week 7, you will add in your network diagram to the paper deliverable, as well as turn
in the original Visio file to the Dropbox. Step 7: Outline of your security plan
Please outline in a college-level paragraph some of the security issues and justifications your
team addressed when working on the design for the new network. You have covered some basic
security issues in this as well as other networking classes, and it will be an important part of any
overall network design.
References:
Document any references that you use in APA format in the deliverable document. The Cisco
website is a good source of information. One Cisco discussion of campus networks can be found
at: http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=25259.
Try and peruse the IEEE Explore digital library and the Faulkner’s FACCTs databases from the
DeVry library website as general references for technology and networking. The databases are
available from the DeVry library site accessed via the student resources tab under Course Home. Step 8: Create your final report deliverables.
Deliverables are due in Weeks 1, 4, and 7.
Deliverable Schedule:
Week 1: A team contract will need to be completed and uploaded to your professor in Week 1. It
will not be graded, but it has to be completed by each team member and uploaded into the
Dropbox.
Week 4: Peer Review will need to be uploaded to the Dropbox in Week 4 by each team
member. The Week 4 Project Status report will need to be uploaded to the Dropbox in Week 4 by
one team member.
Week 7: The final Course Project and peer reviews are due in Week 7. Each team member will
upload to the Dropbox an end-of-project peer review in Week 7. EXAMPLE WEEK 4 PROJECT STATUS REPORT:
Week 4 Project Status Report (8 points) NETW206 Team ___
Team Members: __________________________________________________
Section 1: Accomplishments Completed and In Progress (list accomplishment by team
member): Please outline in a college-level paragraph a summary of your team’s
accomplishments to date.
ADD PARAGRAPH HERE
Section 2: Milestone Table: Fill out the table of responsibilities necessary to complete
the project deliverables, list completion status, what is in progress, and any other items.
For example: Milestone: Deliverable Executive Summary/Introduction/Abstract Technical Requirements and Assumptions Team Member
Responsible Jerry Karen Visio Diagram Paul Week 4 Milestones Karen Outline
Due Draft Due Status Week 6 Draft
complete.
Will revise
for final
paper. Week 3 Draft
complete.
Will revise
in Week 5. Week 3 Week 4 Draft
complete.
Will revise
in Week 5. Beginning
of Week
4 for
team
review.
Discusse Complete
d form
due end
of Week
4. Reviewed
by team,
and turned
into the
drop box. Week 3 Week 2 Complete
d Complete d in
weekly
team
meeting. Include a table like this:
INCLUDE FILLED OUT TABLE Milestone: Deliverable Team Member
Responsible Outline
Due Draft
Due Completed
Status Section 3: Visio Diagram: Cut and paste a copy of your current network diagram. (Note in
Week 7 you will add in your network diagram to the paper deliverable, as well as turn in
the original Visio file to the Dropbox.)
ADD DIAGRAM
Section 4: Communication: Please outline in a college-level paragraph a summary of
your team communication and contact highlights. For instance, what online meetings
have been scheduled already for your team? How are you using the Discussion areas
and chat sections of the course shell? How did you decide responsibilities? What have
been the challenges for working on the project? When is the next online meeting
scheduled?
ADD PARAGRAPH Information for Week 7 Project Deliverable Your team will be following APA format to create the deliverable for this document.
Cover sheet following APA format including all team members’ names, header, and so on.
Table of Contents
Introduction/Executive Summary
New Network Design Items: (Including summary and justification as well as application and analysis) Technical goals/constraints/services
EtherChannel information
Equipment list/bill of materials
IP addressing scheme
Switch documentation
Visio diagram of the new network
Security plan
Conclusions/lessons learned
References Example Title Page here:
HEADER:
Running head: [Click here: TYPE A SHORTENED TITLE IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS] [Click here: Type Title Like This: Twelve Word Maximum]
[Click here: Type Your Full Name including Middle Initial]
DeVry University Author Note
This paper was prepared for NETW206
taught by professor [Click here: Type Professor's First Initial & Last Name].
Course Project Title 11 Example of APA References
APA Manual (Publication manual of the American Psychological Association) (6th ed.). (2010).
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
APA Style. (n.d.). http://www.apastyle.org. Retrieved July 1, 2014, from http://apastyle.org
"[Click here: Continue to type YOUR reference citations]" Step 9: Review the Grading matrix to determine how your team grade will be
calculated. (This grading rubric is also available in the Course Project section of the Course
Shell.)
Category Documentation
and Formatting
Visio Organization,
and
Cohesiveness Points % Description 10 14% A quality paper will include a title page, abstract,
proper citations using APA style and a bibliography.
This includes using APA formatting. 10 14% 5 Network topology (team will turn in original Visio file
as well as place a screen shot of the network diagram
into the project template.) 8% A quality paper will include an introduction based
upon a well-formed thesis statement. The logical
order of the content will be derived from the thesis
statement. The content will be properly subdivided
into sections derived from the outline. In a quality
paper, the conclusion will summarize the previously
presented content and will complement the thesis
statement from the introduction.
A quality paper will be free of any spelling,
punctuation, or grammatical errors. Sentences and
paragraphs will be clear, concise, and factually
correct. Editing 5 8% Content 20 28% Week 4 8 A quality paper will have significant scope and depth
of research to support any statements. Strategic
implications will be explained and supported. Category Points % Milestone
Submission points 11% 2
points 3% Peer Review
(Week 4)
Peer Review
(Week 7) 14%
10
points Total Week 4 10 Total Week 8 60 Description Relevant illustrations or examples are encouraged. A
quality paper will employ use of sound reasoning and
logic to reinforce conclusions.
Week 4 Milestone submission will be evaluated.
Peer Review for Week 4 will be evaluated.
Peer Review for Week 7 will be evaluated. 10% Milestone and Week 4 Peer Review 100
% A quality project will meet or exceed all of the above
requirements.