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Data Communications and Networks Assignment - Network Design for a Modern Software development company

Background:

A private biomedical development company (5 Star) is located in 2 adjacent three-story buildings. It developed software for programming machines which it has built and sold for many years. They plan to develop a web version of their machine. Each building is approximately 50 metres long and 15 metres ide. They are set about 40 metres apart. The company needs your expertise to upgrade their existing network. Their current network is old and will need to be replaced. The managing director has asked for a "software development company of the future, using the latest technologies with a network which can accommodate the load now and for another five years".

For part 1 report, you are required to:

• Analyse user network requirements
• Describe and analyse the current network

You will need to make a number of assumptions (see below) regarding the existing organisational structure including management hierarchy, software, hardware, circuit, user communities and network use patterns , etc. which will need to be documented in the appropriate sections of your report. Employees form communities of users based on their roles. Hint Work out the needs for each of these communities of users.

You will need to identify all the circuits (cabling) and network hardware of the existing network(s) and explain their function, performance, capacity, etc. You will need to include both logical and physical network diagrams for the current network. You will also need to provide a layout of your software development company showing where your network devices are located. Presentation is important. No marks are allocated to referencing, however, you are strongly encouraged to do so if relevant.

Attachment:- Assignment Files.rar