Network Design for Local Area Network - Desklib

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NETWORK DESIGN
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NETWORK DESIGN1
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Design and Description of the Local Area Network..................................................................2
Network Topology.................................................................................................................2
LAN Design...........................................................................................................................3
IP Addresses...........................................................................................................................3
Description of the hardware.......................................................................................................4
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................5
References..................................................................................................................................6

NETWORK DESIGN2
Introduction
The Top Class Networks (TCN) that is located in Sydney has an entire building
consisting of five floors in total dedicated to this organization to be specific. The company
has been divided into five main departments namely, Administration, Hardware, Sales,
Customer Support and lastly, Human Resource. Every single department has been allotted a
different floor. The first floor has been given to the Administration department, the second
floor belongs to the Customer Support, Hardware department has been situated in the third
floor (López-Pérez et al., 2016). The fourth floor is dedicated to the Human Resource and
lastly, the Sales department is on the fifth floor.
As an approach towards the development of a network within the organization, every
single department shall be supplied with a specific router along with that of a switch. Along
with this, the ground floor which is the server room has a separate router for itself as well as
consists of the main router to which every single of the six routers shall be connected (Wang
et al., 2017). In addition to this, the workstations belonging to every department shall be
connected with the routers through the switches that are present.
Design and Description of the Local Area Network
Network Topology
The network topology selected for this particular network is star topology. In star
topology, there is the presence of a main router in the middle to which all of the routers shall
be connected (Morales, Akopian and Agaian, 2016). In this network, there is no need of any
connection between the individual routers that are present on each floor, hence the star
topology has been chosen for the building of this network.