BN321 Local Area Network Design And Implementation Assessment Answer

Assignment Description

You are a Graduate Network Engineer with a Company in Australia. COVID 19 has forced the company to redesign a cost-effective network to address the new online requirements. As a part of the design task force, you are required to come up with a network design proposal. Consider the company has five departments: Front desk, finance, Sales, IT and manager. The company requires to have a seamless communication with all the departments. Consider that there are not more than 20 host in each of the department.

It is to note that this assignment consists of two parts a) Assignment 1a and b) Assignment 1b. Each of the assignment has its own submission deadlines.

Assignment 1a

The report should include the following contents:

Project Scope

• The project scope and requirement should have an outline of the project.

Project Hardware and Software requirements

• Name of the network device with the manufacturer's name, series, model and ports
• Number and type of devices to be used
• Type of the media used e.g., types of cables
• Name of the server, PC with specification such as operating system, RAM, hard disk etc.

Approach for the design

• Discuss in clear terms the approach that you are taking for designing the network. You may use bullet points whenever necessary.

Assignment 1b

Feedback for assignment 1b

• It is mandatory that students should demonstrate how they have incorporated the feedback given in assignment 1a. You may use a tabular form whenever necessary.

Detailed Network Diagram

• Include a diagram of your designed network, and write justifications of your design including the IP addressing solution

Network device configurations

• Include most of the suitable features which you have studied from laboratories 1 to 6.
• Hint: Use of VLANs for different departments could be one of the preferences. You could have your own approaches.