Proposal of a WAN Solution for the School Campus of Singapore Gaming Academy

Running head: COMPUTER NETWORKING
Computer Networking: Network Report
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Executive Summary
The report is prepared for Singapore gaming Academy for the proposal of a WAN solution for its
school campus. The WAN solution is proposed and it meets all the requirement of the
organization and mitigate the current problem faced by the organization. The router interface of
the network are configured with an IP addressing scheme and a remote connection is created
between different universities for the development of the network solution. The different
department of the university are connected using different vlan and the security of the network is
taken into consideration for the development of the network solution.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................5
1.1 Campus Background..............................................................................................................5
1.2 Current Issue Encounter........................................................................................................5
1.3 Objective................................................................................................................................6
2. Proposed Network Solution.........................................................................................................7
2.1 Implementation of LAN and WLAN for the Academy which replace the current wired
100Mbps Ethernet network.........................................................................................................7
2.2. Implementation of access points for wireless access for the students, staff and guests.......7
2.3. To link up all the department together on to a backbone network to support higher volume
of data..........................................................................................................................................8
2.4. IP Address Allocation...........................................................................................................8
2.5. Hardware..............................................................................................................................9
2.6. Switching............................................................................................................................10
2.6.1 Spanning Tree...............................................................................................................10
2.6.2 Ether channel................................................................................................................11
2.6.3 VLAN...........................................................................................................................11
2.7 Routing................................................................................................................................11
2.7.1 EIGRP...........................................................................................................................11
2.7.2 HSRP............................................................................................................................12

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2.8 VOIP....................................................................................................................................12
2.9 Wi-Fi....................................................................................................................................13
2.10 Network Security...............................................................................................................13
2.10.1 Password Protection....................................................................................................13
2.10.2 Access List (ACL)......................................................................................................13
2.10.3 Switch Port Security...................................................................................................14
2.10.4 Firewall.......................................................................................................................14
2.10.5 Intrusion Detection System (IDS) and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)................14
2.11. Biometric..........................................................................................................................15
2.11.1 Advantages of Biometric system................................................................................16
2.11.2 Disadvantages of biometric system............................................................................17
2.12. Further network expansion at the Academy.....................................................................18
2.13. Implementation of WAN..................................................................................................18
2.14. Implementation of IPv6 addressing..................................................................................19
3.0. Network Diagrams for the school network.............................................................................20
3.1. Network Diagram for Implementation of WAN to automate the data transfer between the
school and possible two overseas campuses in Asia Pacific.....................................................20
3.2. Network Diagram for Implement access points for wireless access for the students, staff
and guests..................................................................................................................................20
3.3. Network Diagram for backbone network...........................................................................21

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3.4. Add firewalls in all the network diagrams..........................................................................22
4. Conclusion.................................................................................................................................22
5. Bibliography..............................................................................................................................23

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1. Introduction
The report is prepared for Singapore Gaming Academy providing a brief description of
the campus and the current problem faced in the campus. A network solution is proposed for the
university with proper IP addressing scheme for all the interface of the device used for the
configuration of the network solution. A list of the hardware and the protocol used for the
implementation of the network is given for estimation of the cost of the network solution. The
security of the network is also implemented with the application of the password protection and
configuration of the firewall. A biometric device is added with the network solution for
increasing the security of the network and maintaining the attendance schedule of the students.
The network is also configured with VOIP protocol for communicating with the different
branches.
1.1 Campus Background
Singapore Gaming Academy has 200 nodes in the campus and they are needed to be
connected for improvement of the connectivity and communication in the network. The nodes
are located in different department and they are required to be connected in different vlan for
increasing the security of the network and communicate with the other department securely.
With the implementation of the vlan in the network the network would become flexible and it
can adopt the future expansion of the network easily. Moreover a VPN connection is configured
for the allowing the remote user to access the network elements.
1.2 Current Issue Encounter
The main problem identified in the current network of Singapore Gaming Academy is the
slow network speed and limitation of the bandwidth for supporting the network to send and