Reference no: EM133888519 , Length: 10 pages

Assessment
Your mark will reflect both contentand presentation. You will lose marks if there are problems with the presentation, particularly with clarity. This means that your answers to each question should be a coherent statement and that the spelling and grammar of your submission will be taken into account in assessing its presentation.

Your company which designs, implements, maintains and tests networking infrastructure has taken interest in a small Northern Beaches shopping centres tender process to upgrade their network.

The tender description indicates that they are having trouble keeping customers within the shopping centre. After internal consultation with the stores within the shopping centre, it has been highlighted that the networking infrastructure is poor. As a result most stores rely upon the local 4G mobile network creating friction when performing transactions with customers. The stores have also highlighted that a common customer complaint is about the spotty wireless connectivity for their mobile phones within the centre. Due to the slow speeds and disruptions this causes, potential window shoppers end up leaving earlier than they otherwise would. As such, management have decided to redo all of the networking infrastructure as an upgrade within the shopping centre.

Your tasks
The shopping centre management have decided that they do not have the capability of planning and implementing this upgrade, ultimately deciding on issuesing an Invitiation To Tender (ITT). Each tender submission is required to contain a variety of documents. Your company has decided to submit a bid, and have tasked you with creating a report with the items listed below.

1 LAN Design
The LAN design should satisfy the needs of both customers and stores. All stationary devices (e.g. within stores, office) are expected to use wired connections. All areas should have good wireless coverage so customers and staff are able to reliably use their own wireless devices without interruption in the centre. Hire Online Assignment help service for completing assignment!

Draw a diagram (physical or logical) of all machines and devices in the shopping centres LAN. Clearly label all layer 2 & layer 3 devices that will be needed to provide internal and external connectivity. All subnets and/or VLANs in the building should be clearly identified in your diagram.

You are to assume that cabling is routed through the ceiling of each floor, and as such can take any path from node to node.
It is expected that a 1/2 to 1 page description is provided about the diagram, including assumptions and justified decisions.

2 Project Management: Timeline, implementation plan and costing
As part of the tender documentation, based on the network diagram in Part 3.1 and the details provided in Part 2.
1. Put together a budget that includes the costs for all equipment including desktop computers, displays, IP phones, printers, and networking devices in addition to labour costs for delivery, installation, configuration and testing.
2. Propose a schedule in a Gantt chart clearly indicating how long it should take your team to complete the job (i.e. the start and end date of all work), the tasks and activities involved.
Your company has been advised that if they win the tender, work can begin anytime after 01-06-2025, and must be completed by 31-10-2025.
Your company's other contracts
Your companies main business is designing, implementing, upgrading and testing networking infrastructure. As such, during the time period mentioned above 2 other jobs have been scheduled to be completed at other locations/sites. These jobs must be accounted for in your schedule. You are free to schedule them to be completed anytime before 30-09-2025. These jobs include:
• A small network upgrade & test at a Parramatta
location, taking 1 week & 2 days respectively.
• A rewiring of outdoor platforms at a Lower North Shore train station as preventative maintenance, taking 5 days.
• A network test and upgrade plan design of a Bathurst location, taking 5 days.

3 Risk Assessment
Assemble an asset / control spreadsheet to identify and prioritise:
• potential assets (physical and data / intellectual property / staff)
• potential risks for those assets (1 or 2 risks per asset is ok)
• 1 or 2 potential strategies to reduce the risk's likelihood or severity of the impact occurring. Present this as a table like the example on the last page of the document "Floor plans and other materials", but do not use the rows and columns used there -- you will need to adjust the rows and columns to suit your response.
Your asset / risk control spreadsheet might take up one page, but you can also use a second page to elaborate on your reasons / choices if you feel you need to provide further clarity. For instance: How did you prioritise the
assets? How did you identify potential risks? How did you land on your chosen risk mitigation strategies/avoidance measures?

4 Security and Privacy
Review the proposed network diagram in 3.1 to ensure that the solution meets the security and data privacy requirements of stores. All communications within the stores contain private information about their sales, stock delivery planning, employee information, and operational communications.
Explain how your LAN design addesses the above. Does your LAN need to be amended? if so, what impacts will these amendments have on your cost estimates?
e.g. if you need extra or more expensive equipment, state the revisions to the previous project management documentation (i.e. highlight what changes are being made).
This section of your report should not need to be more than two pages long. One page for the revised logical or physical diagram, and up to one page identifying what changes you have made, why you made those changes and/or additions to address the security and privacy requirements.

5 Code of Ethics
As part of your tender, you have been asked to advise the Tender Review Panel about certain boundaries and ethical obligations to consider. As part of the ACS Code of Professional Ethics (links in the week 8 lecture section in iLearn), what would be good ethical considerations to bring to the attention of the Tender Review Panel? Specifically:
• touch on four or more sub-points in the Code.
• for each sub-point you have selected, outline what you would say to the Tender Review Panel to convince them of the importance / relevance of that point.

6 Presentation
Answer all the above in a well-structured technical report for your boss, who will be using your design, solutions, proposals, considerations and insights in the Company's tender documentation. As such, you are expected to include an executive summary, conclusions/summary, and recommendations sections.