Advanced Networks Assignment Solution

Running head: ADVANCED NETWORKS
Advanced Networks
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Table of Contents
Part 1 – Design...........................................................................................................................2
1. Discussing the network model and the business requirement............................................2
1.1. Background of the organization..................................................................................2
1.2. Goals and Objectives of the Project............................................................................2
2. Logical Design...................................................................................................................3
3. Associated Design Documents...........................................................................................5
Part 2 – Report...........................................................................................................................7
Introduction............................................................................................................................7
Layer 3 architecture................................................................................................................7
Protocols and Devices..........................................................................................................10
Protocols...........................................................................................................................10
Network Hardware Devices.............................................................................................11
Backup Solution...................................................................................................................13
Intrusion Prevention System................................................................................................13
Intrusion detection system....................................................................................................13
Port Security.........................................................................................................................14
Access control List...............................................................................................................14
Protocol Filtering.................................................................................................................14
Conclusion............................................................................................................................15
Bibliography.............................................................................................................................16

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Part 1 – Design
1. Discussing the network model and the business requirement
1.1. Background of the organization
UKF Trading Company is a financial organization with its base in Birmingham,
Manchester and Edinburgh. There are different business organization that gets their service
from UKF Trading and the company have the requirement to expand their current network in
order to serve the growing needs of their customers. For the expansion of the organization the
company needs to relocate the headquarter to a large space and design a network to connect
all the workspace of the new building. Thus a new network design is needed according to the
layout of the building and a network design is proposed for the organization for meeting the
tender invitation.
1.2. Goals and Objectives of the Project
Performance – The UKF Trading Company network should be developed for the
measurement of the service quality and the performance of the network is measured
depending on the bandwidth, throughput, latency, error rate and jitter in the network. The
network downtime should be minimum and it should be available to the user all the time.
Backup of the network should be created for the reducing the recovery time and increasing
the performance of the network.
Availability – The network device should be connected with each other using
redundant link such that if one of the link fails the data packets can reach the destination
address using the mirror link. It also eliminates the congestion in the network and reduces the
rate of error and latency. The use of separate channel for the different departments increases

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the availability of the network resources and the servers should be configured with
virtualization for balancing the loads and serve the needs of the clients.
Flexibility – Different options should be available to the user for the expansion of the
network and reduce the failure point for the development of the network framework. The
network should be tested for analysis in the errors in the configuration and the business
policy should be evaluated for the configuration of the network device. The network should
be flexible such that it can be expanded according to the growth of the organization and there
should be no performance issues for maintaining high latency.
Manageability – The network administrator is responsible for the management of the
network performance and the problems in the network should be identified for mitigation of
the risk associated with the development of the network. The throughput of the network
should be optimized for allowing the user to get the best output from the network. Different
Vlans are used for the management of the departments and divide the communication channel
for transferring of data packets. The VLAN management is important for the management of
the data traffic and enabling control on the flow of traffic in the network.
2. Logical Design
The logical diagram of the network is prepared for the AMY networks including all
the details such as the list of the network device and the IP address used for the configuration
of the interface of the device. The UKF trading servers are located in different geographical
location such as Manchester, Edinburgh and Birmingham and it is serves the needs of the
regional offices.