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ITSU3009 Project Assignment - Network Design and Configuration, Victorian Institute of Technology, Australia
Project - Designing and Configuring a network solution for a medium sized organization
Scenario - You are working for a networking solution provider. Your team has asked you to design a network solution for the requirements specified by Initech and test it using GNS3 emulation platform before deploying the real network and document the specifications.
Company - Initech
Initech is a company founded in 2009 which provides IT management software solutions. Initech has 2500 employees and is headquartered in Houston, USA and has branches in different countries such as UK, China and Australia.
Initech Company Requirements - Initech Australia provides management software solutions to companies in Australia. The head office of the company is situated in Melbourne. It has branches in Sydney and Perth. Company wants to Implement a network which supports potential growth over the next five years and they have hired your company to layout the network with an expectation of 20% growth of current IP requirements. (For the simplicity of the case study and to limit the scope we have ignored the connections to the international branches.)
At present, there are 80 employees at department of Support Services, 30 employees in department of Consulting, 15 employees in department of Marketing, and 5 employees in the department of Finance providing their service to the head office which is stationed in Melbourne. Company has also 6 employees working as Technicians who travel between all sites to audit and provide onsite troubleshooting services to customers. Melbourne head office also hosts the server farm for the network. These servers contain web servers, Domain Controllers, DHCP and file servers which carry company sensitive information.
Melbourne head office is spread across 2 major buildings which are 10 km apart from each other. Building A is a two-storied building with Support Services and Consulting department employees on 2nd floor. Marketing and Finance department employees are stationed on 1st floor. Building B also contains department of Support Services and department of consulting. Server Farm is hosted in building A. In connecting the major building of the head office, company has requested to set up a VPN connection with security measurements.
The Sydney branch spans across a single area which is 50 meters x 30 meters and has a building floor of size 25 meters x 20 meters. It includes all departments in company.
Perth branch spans across a land of 25 meters x 25 meters with 15 meters x 15 meters building floor dimensions and it includes department of Support and Consulting.
Company requests at least one separate printer for each department in each Branch. Each department also has a separate server reserved which acts as a domain controller. Network Administrators group who is working for the Support group in Melbourne should have access to all the devices over the network to both monitor and configure if necessary using a secured connection. Initech insists the network to be reliable and secured to the maximum extend.
Company prefers to use private addresses as a security concern and prefers to buy a range of public addresses which could be used for internet connections using Network Address Translation (NAT).
The company requires the implementation of following security policies to control the flow of IP traffic within its network and to the Internet.
For clarity, all the requirements requested by the company is listed in point form bellow.
Access Rules for Group Access VLANs
- All VLANs are permitted to access internet unless specifically denied below.
- VLAN to VLAN access, is denied unless specifically permitted below.
- PC hosts in the Consulting VLAN are permitted access to the Marketing, Finance and printers VLAN.
- PC hosts in the Finance VLAN are permitted access to the Marketing VLANs and printers.
- PC hosts in the Marketing VLAN are permitted access to the Internet and printers.
- PC hosts in Support VLANs are permitted access to all VLANs.
(Use a Table H to record the testing of the ACLs - add Rows as needed).
Your company expects you to configure VPN connections between all sites and your company needs to ensure the most efficient solutions for the clients including using VLSM for their designs.
Task -
The Service Delivery Manager of your company has asked you to design and configure the network infrastructure for Initech company, specify all the details about network devices and technologies to be used and implement the simulation using GNS3. After creating the topology, you need to configure the network based on the given requirements and test to make sure it is working properly.
Use the table structures in the Appendix A when you are preparing the report for the project which are also being used for documentation of the project by Your company.
- Document the VLSM Design.
- Document Router and Switch Details for each site. Separate table should be created for each router and switch.
- Document the IP address plan.
- Record ACL testing and connectivity results.
- Record the processes of configuring and testing network automation
The guidelines and instructions for the report are in Appendix B.
Your Report should consist of at least following items. The report should rich in content and should consists of content, explanations, figures, tables and references (in APA format).
Attachment:- Project Assignment File.rar