Network Assessment and Designing

1PART 1 - Executive summary
Network Assessment and Designing
NETWORK ASSESSMENT AND DESIGNING
By (Student’s names)
[Class Name]
[Professors’ Name]
[University’s Name]
[City and town where the university is located]
[Date]

2PART 1 - Executive summary
Network Assessment and Designing
Table of Contents
1 PART 1 - Executive summary..................................................................................................2
2 PART 2 - Network diagram.....................................................................................................3
3 PART 3 – Sub-netting the network and assigning IP addresses to devices............................3
3.1 Sub-netting........................................................................................................................4
4 PART 4 - Researching and sourcing appropriate devices........................................................9
4.1 Executive summary...........................................................................................................9
4.2 Weighted Decision Matrix - hardware resource requirements analysis...........................9
4.3 Budget.............................................................................................................................11
5 PART 5 - Cloud computing proposal.....................................................................................11
5.1 Using desktop Environment provided by a Cloud service provider (such as Amazon). 12
5.2 Using desktop environment provided by a private cloud infrastructure based in Sydney
12
5.3 Continuing to use workstations.......................................................................................12
5.4 Recommendation............................................................................................................13
6 Reference................................................................................................................................13

3PART 1 - Executive summary
Network Assessment and Designing
1 PART 1 - Executive summary
This report cover the Australian data analytic company that requires the assessment of the
current network so that it can be re-designed in order to accommodate the newly opened braches
which need new equipments.
The main purpose of this project is to design the network, allocate IP addresses to the various
subnets, and calculate the expected budget to implement the entire network.
This project has a large scope where it involves the sub-netting of the proposed network
branches by assigning respective IP addresses, identification of the hardware devices to be used,
approximation of the network budget and analyzing the various cloud computing proposals and
through this the management will be able to identify the best way to implement the network.
This project had been carried out in order to achieve some set objectives by the company which
includes the following:
i. Enable the company have internet access.
ii. To enable the company wide local area network to have wireless access.
iii. To enable the share the database facilities.
iv. To enable the company have the web services to the users.
v. To enable the network users back up their information.
vi. To enable the company to make use of the cloud based services in their operations.
2 PART 2 - Network diagram

4PART 1 - Executive summary
Network Assessment and Designing
3 PART 3 – Sub-netting the network and assigning IP addresses to devices
The below table shows the number of the IP addresses that are required in the various network
subnets where each location is allocated the IP addresses depending on the number of work
stations.
Location Workstations WLAN addresses LAN ADDRESSES
Sydney 400x2=800 30 800
Melbourne 70 x2=140 14 140
Brisbane 150 x2=300 14 300
Canberra 50 x2=100 - 100
Adelaide 80 x2=160 - 160
Hobart 15 x2=30 - 30
3.1 Sub-netting
The network sub-netting is done to assign the various locations their IP addresses, in this case the
class B IP address 128.1.0.0/20 is used to assign the IP addresses accordingly and this is obtained
through the calculations of the IP addresses subnet masks (Andrew 2015) , broadcast addresses
and the address range where the addresses assigned will allow the future expansion of the
network as below.
3.1.1 Sydney branch
This branch will be having 800 workstations on the LAN, 30 IP addresses in the WLAN which make a total
of 830 therefore.
There are 830hosts therefore
Number of Hosts = 830
2x = (830 + 4).
210 = (1024> 834)
Network bits = 32 – 10 = 22
Network IP-Address = 128.1.0.0 /22
Broadcast IP-Address: - 128.1.3.255
Subnets mask = 255.255.252.0