EEE_5_DCN Data Communication and Computer Networks

Your client has two separate locations for their business, one in London which is the Headquarters and the other in Liverpool which is concerned with sales and marketing. Both the Liverpool and London office networks are shown in figure 1. The client wants you to improve the networks both at London and Liverpool. After the discussions with the Managing Director and the Technical director for the company, you have obtained the following requirement
specifications.

1. Security in communicating between London and Liverpool is very important as is the cost of providing this secures communication.
2. The volume of communications between Liverpool and London is governed by corporate needs and these are,

• E-mails between Sales and Headquarters. This can be pretty heavy at peak times and needs to be secure and reliable.
• Liverpool has a lot of Video clips that they need to look at for marketing purposes. Occasionally these are streamed to London Headquarters.
• Headquarters is keen to allow senior staff in Liverpool direct access to some corporate information on their servers. However they want this to be strictly controlled so that only the senior management group can access this information. The managing director wants him and the technical director to have access to everything in both locations.
• The technical director is adamant that he wants complete access to all BackUp information.

3. Improvement should be made to the Figure 1 to separate different department to different VLANs to increase the security. Network devices might need to be updated to fulfil these. The departments of the company are Human Resource, ICT, Management in the headquarter site; Sales, Marketing, Communication, ICT etc. in the sales and marketing site.

4. Within the company, the private IP should be used to cut the costs. After this first meeting you return to your office and plan a strategy. For your assignment you are required to produce documentation to show how you will provide this client with the solution to their networking needs. You should also simulate you design through the packet tracer software. The implementation of your design through Packet Tracer will count 30% of the assignment part.

Your report should proceed along the following guidelines. The report contents should reflect this and marks will be allocated according to the assessment form provided separately.

1. Introduction and definition of the problem with a statement on the aims and objectives for your study.
2. Initial design to include, initial specification as given above and a plan of action. This will necessarily include arranging further meetings with Directors to establish detailed requirements. Please include in your report any questions that you would ask in order to establish requirements.
3. Final specification for the solution to network needs of the corporation.
4. Design for the implementation of the solution.
5. Post-implementation and maintenance needs.
6. Costs of implementing the solution and maintenance
7. Project management and planning
8. Discussions
9. Conclusions.
10. Software Copy of your report and your implementation on Packet Tracer

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