Assessment of APIC Branch

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Assessment of APIC Branch
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Summary
This report attempts to present and discuss the global coverage of APIC’s (Asia Pacific
International College) overall network that serves as interconnect of the branch networks.
The report also provides and discusses the logical design followed by the physical design of
the branch network at Sydney and goes on talk about cloud services and appropriate cloud
virtualization that have been used. After discussing APIC’s geographical reach through their
large interconnect, a brief description of backbone devices required for the network, network
segmentation and use of APIC’s interconnect is given. Then, the network design of APIC’s
Sydney branch is elaborated with the help of logical and physical diagrams. Cisco Packet
tracer is used to draw the three layer hierarchical network diagram for the logical design
whereas the physical design is built using Microsoft Visio. Thereafter, requirements summary
of the branch network are provided in tabular format where available IPs, IP allocation
process and subnet details are included. Following the suggestion of cloud service solutions
that can benefit APIC as well as virtualization methods, the dynamic scaling feature gets
described and then the report ends providing observations in the conclusion section.

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Discussion..................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................3
References..................................................................................................................................4

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ASSESSMENT OF APIC BRANCH
Introduction
The report presents and discusses the spread of APIC’s (Asia Pacific International
College) network interconnect connecting the respective branch networks. The report
proceeds to illustrate and discuss the physical and logical designs of the branch network at
Sydney and talks about cloud services used along with the cloud virtualization methods. It
begins by discussing APIC’s geographical reach through their large interconnect providing
brief descriptions of backbone devices of the network, network segmentation and use of
APIC’s interconnect. Then, the network design of APIC’s Sydney branch is elaborated with
the help of logical and physical diagrams. Cisco Packet tracer is used to draw the three layer
hierarchical network diagram for the logical design whereas the physical design is built using
Microsoft Visio. Thereafter, requirements summary of the branch network are provided in
tabular format where available IPs, IP allocation process and subnet details are included.
Following the suggestion of cloud service solutions that can benefit APIC as well as
virtualization methods, the dynamic scaling feature gets described and then the report ends
providing observations in the conclusion section.