Netw 410 Week2 Ilab Report

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Name: NETW410, Professor’s name: Christine Adams Current Date: 03/16/2014 Lab 2: Application of the Top-Down Network Design Methodology Lab Report 1. What are the business goals? (10 points) To redesign the community college’s network to accommodate the growth in student enrollment to meet the demand for online courses. 2. What are the business constraints? (10 points) Funding for the school is revenue from a property tax and previously approved bond issue, the funds must be spent in a fiscally prudent manner while still delivering the required network improvements. 3. What are the technical goals? (10 points) Build a new IT wing onto the administration building, connect all of the buildings to the new IT wing, provide controlled wireless access for the students in each classroom and outside of each building, provide a high-speed wired network to each faculty office, provide a centralized online backup of all designated data, and replace the PBX system with a VOIP system. 4. What are the technical constraints? (10 points) Reduce and centralize the servers in the IT wing of the Administration Building, reduce the number of and centralize the Internet connection for the entire campus, establish a server to control faculty and staff network access, as well as to issue IP addresses for all devices that can use a dynamic IP address, establish a server to control student network access inside the buildings, as well as to issue IP addresses to these devices, establish a single IP addressing scheme for the entire campus, prevent interaction between the faculty and staff network and the student network and uptime for the network must be 24/7, except for scheduled maintenance windows each Wednesday night from 10 p.m. until 12 a.m. 5. Diagram the existing network. (10 points) The current network consists of a Category 5 CM-rated UTP cable
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