Network Design And Implementation - Speedfix Company

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NETWORK DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................2
2. Knowledge and Understanding..............................................................................................2
3. Analysis..................................................................................................................................3
4. Evaluation of different components.......................................................................................5
4.1 Router...............................................................................................................................5
4.2 Switch...............................................................................................................................6
4.3 Connecting Cables...........................................................................................................7
4.4 VLANs.............................................................................................................................8
4.5 Trunking...........................................................................................................................8
4.6 Access Control.................................................................................................................9
4.7 DHCP...............................................................................................................................9
5. Network Design...................................................................................................................10
6. Testing and Documentation.................................................................................................11
7. Reflection.............................................................................................................................12
8. References............................................................................................................................14

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1. Introduction
Speedfix.co.uk is a small company that operates within the field of business that has
been in possession of a network for a long time but wants to design as well as implement a
new design to change the entire network architecture of the same (Govindan, Fattahi and
Keyvanshokooh 2017). Mainly, the company has four primary departments, which are
Finance, or the HR department, sales department, engineers as well as Administration
department. The newly proposed network will have the inclusion of four servers namely,
email, DNS, web as well as the common server for the files. Every individual user of the
organization will utilize all of the servers that will be implemented within the network. As a
part of the network, each of the four departments of the network will have a specific router
that will act as a sub-router receiving the connection from the main router of the organization.
Along with this, each of the department will be supplied with respective number of
workstations along with single printers for the work that is carried out within the
organizations (Tofighi, Torabi and Mansouri 2016). This report will also aim towards the
scalability, security as well as availability of the entire network infrastructure that will
provision the speedfix.co.uk company to have a better understanding of the business
objectives and to carry out the same set of actions with better efficiency. Various network
models have been studied to design the network.
2. Knowledge and Understanding
The network that belongs to speedfix.co.uk shall be designed having a complete
dependency upon the departments with their individual components that will provision with a
helping hand towards building the entire infrastructure of the network. In general, network
design commonly refers to the fact of carrying out the mechanisms that specifically deals
with the transport of data from one end to the other (Ceselli, Premoli and Secci 2017). In

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accordance to principles of network, the organization network will be developed as well as
designed with the help of the primary analysis method requiring the necessary components
that will be working within the entire network of the organization. After this, the entire
network will be built on the basis of the requirements that is stated by the client during the
phase of implementation.
The network will have the primary inclusion of four servers namely the likes of
common file, web, DNS as well as the email server. The server within the field of network
particularly refers to the system that provisions all the other components of the network with
the internet connection that is required on a daily basis (Park et al. 2017). Hence, the
individual servers that have been mentioned to be included within the network will either
create a LAN (Local Area Network) or a WAN (Wide Area Network) including all the
components of the network. Hence, all the four servers individually will carry out the
activities of fulfilling the primary objectives associated with the network of speedfix.co.uk.
As a reason, the network that has been undertaken for designing as well as
implementation will be developed using the star topology for the fact that each of the
department will be having a specific router that will be connected to a main router
provisioning all the components such as the workstations and the printers with internet
connection.
3. Analysis
The network that has been designed for the organization named speedfix.co.uk had
been developed following such methods that no other existing department will be able to
gather information or communicate with the other workstations of the existing departments
(Rhu et al. 2016). All the computers from individual departments will be functioning as well
as performing all the activities with the help of getting connected to the DHCP server. On the