Canva Network Design

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CANVA NETWORK DESIGN
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Executive Summary
In this report, the Australian company Canva has been discussed. The company is planning to
open a new branch in Sydney. The company is developing a network design blueprint for
establishing a robust network architecture in its new office. The report has discussed the
various ways to set up the new network with the help of architectural and network design
diagrams, both physical and logical. The report has shown the IP address subnetting
calculation and allotment procedure with the help of a table. The report has also illustrated
the various cloud services the organisation could adopt and after thorough analysis has zeroed
in on Amazon web services. The report has also discussed the various virtualisation and
dynamic scaling techniques supported by AWS. The report concludes by summarising the
major decisions taken throughout the network design process.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................4
Network study............................................................................................................................5
Scope of the overall network..................................................................................................5
Backbone devices...............................................................................................................6
Parting of Networks...........................................................................................................7
Benefits..............................................................................................................................8
Logical Network Design........................................................................................................9
Physical Network Design.....................................................................................................11
IP Allocation and Subnetting:..........................................................................................12
Cloud services and virtualisation.............................................................................................13
Cloud services..................................................................................................................13
Virtualisation....................................................................................................................13
Dynamic scaling...............................................................................................................14
Conclusion................................................................................................................................14
References................................................................................................................................16

3CANVA NETWORK DESIGN
Introduction
In this report, an Australian IT company named Canva will be discussed. The
company is an Australian registered company with its own company website. Canva also uses
information technology services do implement its business organisation. The organisation
Canva mainly deals with large video files uploading and hosting an online graphical design
platform. The company also has its own file sharing servers as it deals in large files that needs
to be shared among its staff and customers regularly. Canva also uses a separate email
address for all of its staff members and has wireless network available in its campuses. The
company has two more campuses, one in Manila, Philippines and the other one in Beijing,
Japan. The main parent campus is in Sydney, Australia. The company wants to shift some of
its web based operations to a cloud based environment. It is also planning to open a new
office in Sydney city centre due to increased work load and inadequate place for additional
employees in existing office.
In this report, the company’s network backbone required for setting up the
internetwork will be discussed along with its global coverage. The physical and logical
design diagram of the new Sydney city centre branch will be highlighted using diagrams with
proper labelling. The geographical scope of the network along with the network backbone
devices will also be explained with the help of a diagram. The three layer architecture
diagram based on logical design will be developed for the new Sydney branch for better
understanding. The IP addresses required for client and server communication will also be
calculated and shown using a table. The cloud services and virtualisation techniques needed
for the proposed plan will be discussed. The report will end with the concluding notes on the
overall network implementation and feasibility of it.