Advanced Network Design

Advanced Network Design 1
ADVANCED NETWORK DESIGN
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Questionnaire...................................................................................................................................3
Questionnaire to non-IT staff members.......................................................................................3
Questionnaire to the IT staff........................................................................................................4
Purpose of each question..............................................................................................................5
Validation and verification plan......................................................................................................6
Network design................................................................................................................................7
Proposed logical design...............................................................................................................7
Proposed physical design.............................................................................................................8
Points of upgrade......................................................................................................................8
IP addressing scheme.................................................................................................................10
Demonstration................................................................................................................................11
References......................................................................................................................................12
ADVANCED NETWORK DESIGN

Introduction
Barranquilla plaza wireless network is very poor and have issues like dropped
connections, insufficient capacity, and dead zones. The hotel have five rooms which are multiple
restaurants, reception area, a bar, pool area, and guest room. The current generic network
diagram layout is as shown by the figure one below. This paper will present a network redesign
for the hotel and to do that this paper will present a sample questionnaire as a means of gathering
the network requirements. The second will demonstrate a network redesign of the organization
with the required IP addressing. The demonstration will stress on the hardware platform
required.
Figure 1: Generic network layout for Barranquilla plaza hotel
Questionnaire

Questionnaire to non-IT staff members
1. Please provide the organization chart and list of their contacts
2. Which are the network components which are utilized by the organization i.e. switches,
wireless products, firewalls, routers, etc.
3. The name of Internet service provider for the hotel
Questionnaire to the IT staff
1. Please provide a list of all the hotel network infrastructure components which includes
the asset owner, manufacturer, model, IP address, location, and component name (Fill in
the table below). If device is not available just indicate N/A. You can add the devices
which are not indicated in the table [1]
Device name Manufacturer Model Allocated IP
address
Location(Where
the device is
located)
Firewall
Router
Switch
Access Points
2. Which the current network logical design implemented by the hotel?
3. Which is the current physical wireless network design implemented by the organization?
4. What type of physical network design implemented by the hotel?
5. How does the hotel learn about the new releases, hot-fixes, or service packs?
6. What are the procedures and policies for upgrading and installing new software?
7. Are the hotel routers connected to a UPS system?
8. How to do you monitor users on the network?