LAN Setup for People Software in Sydney

SCENARIO 1: Local Area Network (LAN) to support Windows Server and Client
Environment
People Software is a software development company requiring the setting up of a LAN for
their office located in Sydney. They have four departments: Developers, Marketing,
Operations, and Finance. All objects (e.g., users, computers, etc.) belonging to these
departments need to be created within their respective OU for their own department.
As a group, we choose to work for People Software as the team dealing with the network
implementation we plan to handle the following issues:
i) Analysing the requirements of the clients
ii) Identifying and proposing necessary severs and their services
iii) Providing the needed configurations for this scenario.
This task analyses various issues expected by clients such as how many personal computers
and what type of configurations are needed by a client, the number of servers with their
configurations required, analyse whether database will be required or not and if there is any
need for the web server to be hosted or not. All these will be dealt with in this first objective
according to a client’s desire.
The next part we will deal with the getting and proposing the best server configuration that
will be required at the end of the analysis. This will be done by configuring the proposed
server with an internet protocol since the specification given was that the following services
of the local area network are required by the People Software:
1) To centralise the authentication of the user
2) To print the server for its users
3) Ensure computers automatically obtain internet protocol’s address from the server
4) Use their own server to host their own website
5) Enable the company store their files separately on a different server such that only
appropriate users can access them. An assumption on the group to have an access to
the server will be clearly stated.
On the final part, we will give the required virtual configurations as per the specifications of
the company stated above and then later make a complete report with defined conclusions
which will be a summary of the whole report stating references as well.
Analysis of the Requirements:
This involves the requirements given by People Software specifying their expectations on
what services the local area network (LAN) should offer to the four departments. They
include;
1) To centralise the authentication of the user
2) To print the server for its users
3) Ensure computers automatically obtain internet protocol’s address from the server
4) Use their own server to host their own website
5) Enable the company store their files separately on a different server such that only
appropriate users can access them. An assumption on the group to have an access to
the server will be clearly stated.

Therefore as the implementation group we set the LAN as below;
From the above diagram it is shown that the network of the LAN is established using the
available number of personal computers, printers of the network, switch of the Ethernet,
number of the digital subscriber lines (DSL) available and finally the centralised connection
device used for authentication purposes which is the one cloud internet in this scenario. The
devices are also divided into four parts and configured accordingly since the People Software
has four departments namely; sales, marketing, inventory and accounting.
The following table shows the total number of the devices used in setting up the LAN
network.
Device used Total number used
Personal computers 11
Ethernet switches 4
Generic servers 4
Network printers 4
Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL) 4

Cloud database 1
Centralised and authenticated server 1
The basic functions of these devices are as stated below;
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) – this is used to define a series communications services with
high speed provided over (PSTN), that is Public Switched Telephone Network.
Wires – they are used to connect devices with each other and also available systems to the
personal computers.
Cloud database – used for storage of the majority data used in the personal computers. Just as
in this setup there is only one database for storing all the data of the network.
Personal computer – used for working on the network. It can be used for official or personal
works depending with the user.
Ethernet switch –from the physical concept, Ethernet originates from the word ether which is
defined as a channel where light waves travel through unrestricted universe. Hence its use is
to connect a computer or more to the internet through a wireless devices, internet router or
even an asymmetric digital subscriber line modem. In our network, when you connect a
single computer to the internet, you are not compelled to use earth net at all. It is derived
from the physical concept of the medium which was at some points support to pass the light
wave into a free space. There exist four Ethernet switches that help in the provision of
connection of various networks through the use of a single authentication server.
Configuration process