Case Study on Network Engineering

ITC306/308 Proposed Systems Admin / Network Engineering Case Study Scenario
You work for Virtucon Pty Ltd and have been contracted by Globex Corporation to design and build their new
corporate network. Globex Corporation have three offices: one in Albury, NSW, one in Griffith, NSW and one in
Wagga Wagga, NSW. Each site has a local Windows Server and all sites are configured with their own domain. Each
site makes use of resources from other sites and all sites use a cloud based web server that hosts a secure Intranet
and provides an NFS share for cloud based backups.
WAGGA WAGGA OFFICE NETWORK
Windows Server Environment - Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 (Active Directory / Group Policy / NTFS Permissions /File
Server / DHCP configuration / DNS configuration / Backups + Terminal Server)
Uses Local Terminal Server, Albury for Exchange Server, Griffith for Sharepoint and Cloud Servers for Intranet / NFS /
VOIP / Web Conferencing
System requirements: dedicated hardware server/s that supports hardware virtualisation (suggest Core i5/4GB)
ALBURY OFFICE NETWORK
Windows Server Environment - Server 2012 R2 (Active Directory / Group Policy / NTFS Permissions /File Server /
DHCP configuration / DNS configuration / Backups + Exchange Server)
Uses Wagga Wagga Terminal Server, Local Exchange Server, Griffith for Sharepoint and Cloud Servers for Intranet /
NFS / VOIP / Web Conferencing
System requirements: hardware server or virtual box server/s (suggest Core i5/4GB)
GRIFFITH OFFICE NETWORK
Windows Server Environment - Server 2012 R2 (Active Directory / Group Policy / NTFS Permissions /File Server /
DHCP configuration / DNS configuration / Backups + Sharepoint)
Uses Wagga Terminal Server, Albury Exchange Server, Local Sharepoint Server and Cloud Servers for Intranet / NFS /
VOIP / Web Conferencing
System requirements: hardware server or virtual box server/s (suggest Core i5/4GB)
VOIP CLOUD NETWORK
Linux Server located within Amazon Web Services with (Linux / Apache / MySQL / PHP / Backups / OpenVPN / DNS /
SNMP / NTP + FreePBX (VOIP))
System requirements: AWS account with free tier eligible micro instance or equivalent
WEBCONFERENCE CLOUD NETWORK
Linux Server located within Amazon Web Services with (Linux / Apache / MySQL / PHP / Backups / OpenVPN / DNS /
SNMP / NTP + Open Meetings (Web Conferencing))
System requirements: AWS account with free tier eligible micro instance or equivalent
STORAGE CLOUD NETWORK
Linux Server located within Amazon Web Services with (Linux / Apache / MySQL / PHP / Backups / OpenVPN / DNS /
SNMP / NTP + NFS)
System requirements: AWS account with free tier eligible micro instance or equivalent
NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
All networks must connect to each via a Virtual Private Network in a full mesh topology and all networks must
connect directly to the cloud servers via HTTPS for the Intranet and over a VPN for access to NFS / VOIP / WEB
CONFERENCING).
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