Network Infrastructure Design Proposal for Color Ability Corporate

Network Technology
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Executive Summary
As result of high growth rate at Color Ability Corporate, an advertising company located in
Brisbane, the company has acquired a four storey building in which they intend to relocate to.
This project therefore provides a proposal for the design of the network infrastructure for the
new building. The report provides the requirements in terms of hardware as well as the ISP
providers that could server CAC well. The report also provide a quality network design that is
more secured and scalable for future extension if need be by implementing a dynamic IP address
technology as well as using both the public and private IP for the network. All these
requirements are given in form of activities as presented in the report.
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary...................................................................................................................................2
Introduction...............................................................................................................................................4
Problem Statement....................................................................................................................................5
Objectives...................................................................................................................................................5
Methodology..............................................................................................................................................5
Project Schedule........................................................................................................................................6
Estimated Project Budget.........................................................................................................................7
Activity 1....................................................................................................................................................7
Activity 2..................................................................................................................................................11
Activity 3..................................................................................................................................................12
Activity 4..................................................................................................................................................14
Activity 5..................................................................................................................................................15
Activity 6..................................................................................................................................................16
Activity 7..................................................................................................................................................17
Activity 8..................................................................................................................................................18
Future Plans.............................................................................................................................................19
Recommendations and Conclusion........................................................................................................19
References................................................................................................................................................20
Appendix: Subnet Calculations.................................................................................................................22
Table
Table 1: Project Schedule................................................................................................................4
Table 2: Budget Estimation.............................................................................................................5
Table 3: General Device Specifications..........................................................................................6
Table 4: Department of Graphics Production Device Specifications..............................................7
Table 5: Department of Film Production Device Specifications.....................................................8
6: Mail Server and FTP Server Specifications................................................................................8
Table 7: Brisbane ISP Providers....................................................................................................11
Table 8: Network Services.............................................................................................................12
Table 9: Requirement Table..........................................................................................................13
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Table 10: CAC Network Subnets..................................................................................................13
Table 11: IP Addresses..................................................................................................................14
Table of Figures
Figure 1: Proposed Printer...............................................................................................................9
Figure 2:cisco series router..............................................................................................................9
Figure 3:Catalyst 9400...................................................................................................................10
Figure 4:Small Business 100 Series from cisco............................................................................10
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Introduction
A proper and well-designed network greatly improves and support the business activities of any
organization that relies on network for its operations. A good network guarantees a reliable
channel for communication and sharing of Information across the organization network in a
more secure manner (Admin, 2015). This therefore means the decision on what topology should
be implemented when designing an organization network is very critical as this will determine
the efficiency of the intended network. Being an advertising network that is growing under high
rate, Color Ability Corporation popularly known as CAC current premises is not enough to
accommodate all of its employees. Therefore the company has acquired a four storey building in
Brisbane where it is intending to move its operations to. All the five departments of the CAC will
be located here and therefore there is need for a quality network design that will serve the
organization in a more effective manner.
The focus of this paper therefore is to provide a proposal on what network design should be used
keeping in mind networking and computing devices that will best suit each department. The
proposal also looks at some of the objectives that this network will meet as well as the security
issues as addressed by both public and private IP. The proposal also give out the sub networks
and their respective IP addresses.
Problem Statement
The new four storey building acquired by CAC at Brisbane currently does not have any
networking design on it. Therefore there is need for to have a proper network infrastructure that
will support CAC activities before the company moves in, in a couple of months.
Objectives
The main objective of the new network will include:
 Ensure that communication is made possible to all the organization’s employees at
different places.
 Determine the proper computing devices specifications to be used by the respective
departments.
 Provide a locally based ISP that will best serve CAC.
 Enhance resource sharing such as printers among others.
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 Ensure that the proposed network is well secured
Methodology
This project will be divided into modules or stages in which each stage will be carried out at
specific times. These stages or tasks are dependent and if carried out well, then it will guarantee
a successful implementation of the project. They include: Project Planning, Creation of design,
Network implementation and finally testing.
Project Schedule
The above named tasks will be carried with the schedule shown below.
Activity Duration (days) Start Stop
Requirements and
planning
15 5th October, 2018 19th October, 2018
Network Design 15 20th October, 2018 3rd November, 2018
Network
Implementation
30 4th November, 2018 3rd December, 2018
Network Testing 10 4th December, 2018 13th December, 2018
Network
Documentation
30 5th October, 2018 5th December, 2018
Table 1: Project Schedule
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