DATA COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKS - OVERVIEW

Running head: DATA COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKS
Network design report
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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DATA COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKS
Table of Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................2
2. Local area network......................................................................................................................2
2.1 Network topology..................................................................................................................2
2.2 LAN design connections........................................................................................................3
2.3 IP addresses...........................................................................................................................4
3. Hardware......................................................................................................................................5
4. Conclusion...................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................9

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DATA COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKS
1. Introduction
The paper mainly reflects on the company XYZ in Sydney that generally requires
allocation of IP Version 4 (IPv4) addresses in 3 different locations including Melbourne,
Adelaide as well as in one main office in Sydney. The main aim of the project to allocate
unreserved public 10v4 addresses in various offices. The network design of the office needs 4
subnets and in addition to this, one needs to utilize routers as well as switches for making
connection among the different networks. Moreover, all the workstation needs proper internet
access, intranet access as well as wireless network. The paper mainly provides design as well as
description of the LAN of all the subnets. Furthermore, a complete description of all the different
interconnecting devices including switches, routers, hubs which are required for building the
network are provided with proper justification. The paper also provides proper comprehensive
summary of the work that is done and proper recommendations.
2. Local area network
2.1 Network topology
The extended star topology is mainly selected for this network. According to
(Balabanov, Zankinski and Barova 2016), a hierarchical or extended star topology is a star
network with proper networking device that is mainly connected with the main network device.
This topology is mainly selected as they are considered as the most popular topologies for the
entire Ethernet networks. These types of network are mainly very much easy to make setup and
are inexpensive and thus help in providing much more redundancy than other types of
topologies. The extended star topology is mainly configured in order to make proper
connections with the different types of nodes on the entire central device. It is found that the