ICT703: Network Technology and Management Report for CAC

This report details a network design and implementation plan for the Color Ability Corporation (CAC), an advertising and marketing firm in Brisbane, Australia. Facing expansion needs, CAC requires a new network infrastructure for its four-floor office. The report addresses the statement of the problem, outlining CAC's objectives, including effective employee communication, universal computer system usage, and the procurement of at least three printers and specific networking devices. It follows a structured methodology, breaking the project into phases like feasibility study, planning, design, implementation, testing, documentation, installation, and customization. The report specifies hardware and software requirements for graphic production, film production, and data center departments, including processors, memory, storage, and peripherals. It recommends Kyocera multifunctional printers, Cisco routers, and Meraki switches, along with Cisco Business 100 series wireless access points. The report includes a project schedule, budget summary, and future plans, offering a comprehensive solution for CAC's network needs.

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Tuesday, October 16, 2018
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Executive Summary
Color Ability Corporation is one of the known companies for advertising and marketing in
Australia. The current space of Color Ability Corporation (CAC) for operation is not entirely
enough at level 10 and level 11 towers in Brisbane Central Business District and thus due to their
experience in advertising and marketing and having many new customers there is need for them
to enlarge their current space and go somewhere else where they will operate freely. This report
has majored on highlighting the way the network will be analyzed, designed and implemented on
the new premises. The report has based its arguments on the type of servers to be used, the type
of network devices to be used by the employees ranging from personal computers to printers and
the way such devices will be used in sharing resources across the entire network in the
organization.
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary.....................................................................................................................................2
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................5
Statement of the Problem...........................................................................................................................5
CAC Objectives............................................................................................................................................5
Methodology...............................................................................................................................................6
Project Schedule..........................................................................................................................................6
Activity One.................................................................................................................................................7
Activity Two...............................................................................................................................................10
Activity Three............................................................................................................................................11
Activity Four..............................................................................................................................................15
Activity Five...............................................................................................................................................16
Application Management....................................................................................................................17
Email Services......................................................................................................................................17
File Storage..........................................................................................................................................17
Internet Protocol Allocation...............................................................................................................17
Activity Six.................................................................................................................................................17
Activity Seven............................................................................................................................................19
Activity Eight..............................................................................................................................................20
Budget Summary.......................................................................................................................................20
Future Plans...............................................................................................................................................21
Conclusions................................................................................................................................................21
List of References......................................................................................................................................22
Appendix A. Subnet Calculations...............................................................................................................23
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Content of tables and Figures
Figure 1 Timeline schedule.........................................................................................................................6
Figure 2 KyoceraTASKalfa 8052ci...........................................................................................................10
Figure 3 Kyocera ECOSYS M8124cidn....................................................................................................11
Figure 4 Cisco Network Convergence System 5500 Series.......................................................................12
Figure 5 Cisco Switch MS225-48..............................................................................................................12
Figure 6: Cisco Small Business 100 Series Wireless Access Points..........................................................13
Figure 7 Backup Server..............................................................................................................................14
Figure 8 Three Layered Hierarchical Layer.................................................................................................14
Figure 9 sample of a network topology Diagram.......................................................................................15
Figure 10 ISP providers..............................................................................................................................16
Figure 11 Form of Network Planning........................................................................................................18
Figure 12 Network subnet.........................................................................................................................19
Figure 13 Internet Protocol Addressing table............................................................................................19
Figure 14 Budget summary.......................................................................................................................20
Table 1 Project schedule timeline................................................................................................................7
Table 2 Graphic production specifications..................................................................................................7
Table 3 film production minimum specifications and recommendations.....................................................8
Table 4 Data Center with mail and the File Transfer protocol Servers........................................................9
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Introduction.
The overall performance of an organization or a company can be enhanced by increasing its
productivity by having quality network designs which works together the network devices which
are of high quality and thus benefiting the organizations in so many ways (Merisa, 2017). The
selected topology of the network will highly affect the availability, reliability and the
performance of the network and thus if the selected topology is not the appropriate one to be
used for implementation then we may expect to have a network that will fail in ensuring that
network is well distributed and that the two features reliability and availability are well met in all
ways (Bird, 2010).
The current space of Color Ability Corporation (CAC) for operation is not entirely enough at
level 10 and level 11 towers in Brisbane Central Business District and thus due to their
experience in advertising and marketing and having many new customers there is need for them
to enlarge their current space and go somewhere else where they will operate freely.
Statement of the Problem
The problem statement that need to be solved in this report is that CAC is moving to a new office
in Brisbane which has a four floors and it is located in Brisbane Suburbs. There are some tasks
that will be associated with the migration of the company to the new premises such as the design
and implementation of the network infrastructure and how it will serve the entire organization
without problems and meeting all their objectives.
CAC Objectives
The following are some of the major objectives that the IT specialist will be required to achieve
for the smooth running of the organization when it comes to sharing of data and resources
transmissions.
1. A network infrastructure that is to be proposed should enable the employee to
communicate effectively.
2. The proposed computer system should be used by all.
3. There will be need to buy at least three printers.
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4. Networking devices to be purchased should be only used in implementation of the
network proposed.
Methodology
When a system is laid down one will ensure that the project is a success whereby one can
divide the project in to different modules just like it is done in the Software Development
Life Cycle (SDLC).
Project Schedule.
Figure 1 Timeline schedule
Phases Activity start date
(2018)
Duration Activity End
Date(2018)
Feasibility study 10th October 3 12th October
Project planning 13th October 10 22nd October
Project Design 23rd October 10 1st November
Implementation 2nd November 25 26th November
Project Testing 27th November 5 2nd November
System Documentation 3rd November 5 4th November
System Installation and
Customization
5th November 2 7th November
Table 1 Project schedule timeline
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Activity One
Graphic device used in Graphic Production department
Sydney and Brisbane Cities
The component involved Minimum specifications and Recommendations
Processor of the system Intel of about 3-4.0 GHz with an Expandable Turbo
Memory capacity 32 GB RAM which has expansion slot of up to 64GB
Hard disk Drives 2TB HDD which could be SATA SAN DISK.
Compact Disk-ROM/Digital Video
Disk DVD Recordable/Writable 24x
The USB Ports 8-18 ports, front-10, back-8
Video Card NVidia 950G with up to 8GB
Sound Card STX III ASUS essence
Internal and External Modem Internal modem 10000 bps
Operating System to be used Microsoft Windows 8 to 10 professional
Screens Size-33 inches, Resolution-8K, rate of refreshing of up to 120 Hz
Printer Kyocera Taskalfa 8052ci
Speakers Dell External Speakers
Internet Connection
100-1000 Base-T Ethernet with up to 10G switch supplying the network
all over.
Table 2 Graphic production specifications
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Graphic device used in Film Production department
Sydney and Brisbane Cities
The component involved Minimum specifications and Recommendations
Processor Core i7 of 8th Generation with up to 3.8 GHz
Memory capacity 16GB RAM of DDR4
Hard disk Drives 1TB HDD which could be SATA SAN DISK.
Compact Disk-ROM/Digital Video
Disk DVD Recordable/Writable 24x
The USB Ports 8 ports, front-4, back-4
Video Card NVidia 720 G with 4GB memory
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 professional of 64bits
Screens Size-24-33 inches, Resolution-8K, rate of refreshing of up to 120 Hz
Speakers External Speakers model HP 752701.
Internet Connection
100-1000 Base-T Ethernet with up to 10G switch supplying the network
all over.
Table 3 film production minimum specifications and recommendations
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Graphic device used in data center department
Sydney and Brisbane Cities
The component
involved Minimum specifications and Recommendations
Processor
Core i5 to core i7 of 7th Gen to 8th Generation with a processor speed of up
to 4.0GHZ if it is triggered.
Memory capacity 16 GB RAM
Hard disk Drives 10 TB HDD.
Compact Disk-ROM/Digital
Video Disk DVD R/W
The Universal Serial Bus
Ports 8-12 ports, front-4, back-8
Video Cards VisionTek Radeon 7750 SFF 1GB DDR3 5M VHDCI (4x DVI-D, miniDP)
Sound Cards Asus STX II Essence
Internal and External Modem Internal modem and external modem ranging from 10000 to 12000 bps
Operating System to be used Microsoft Windows 10 pro
Screens 24`` Resolution-8K, Refresh rate-160 Hz
Printer and scanners and
Photocopiers Kyocera ECOSYS M8124cidn
Speakers application External Speakers model HP 752701.
Internet Connection
100-1000 Base-T Ethernet with up to 10G switch supplying the network all
over.
Table 4 Data Center with mail and the File Transfer protocol Servers
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Activity Two
In any company when it comes to printing then there is no comprimisation, as it will be done on
daily basis and thus there will be need for CAC to have a multifunctional printer which will be
able to perform all the specific tasks without technical issues in all manners. . The increment
with number of clients working together with CAC has led them to migrate from their old office
to a larger office and since they will be required to hire more people then there will be need to
purchase quality and heavy duty multifunctional printers such as Kyocera Taskalfa 8052ci which
is a multi-functional and multipurpose printer.
Figure 2 KyoceraTASKalfa 8052ci
Kyocera TASKalfa 8052ci is capable of doing duplex scanning and printing and at the same time
it helps in improving the workflow as expected. It comes offers specifications of MFP which is
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uncompromising. It has a speed of printing of about 80 A4 or A3 per minute may it be colored or
not colored. It can offer a maximum of about 7650 sheets capacity. Is has a fast performance as it
is secured with an 8GB solid state drive and a Hard disk drive of about 320 Gb capacity which
enables it to holds the printing speed even when one is printing high resolution images.
The managers in Brisbane will need a small printer which will cater for their office needs as
recommended. The printer that will boost their work is that which has the ability to print colored
pages, can print, scan and at the same time do copy. Another requirements that should be
available one which will allow the manager to print double sided pages and of which the quality
is very high (kyocera, 2017). The printer which will best serve is Kyocera ECOSYS M8124cidn
which can print up 24 pages per minute. It is highly recommended in terms of power
consumption as it saves energy and much more it is has components which are long life which
are known for providing efficiency and reliability which is unprecedented.
Figure 3 Kyocera ECOSYS M8124cidn
Activity Three
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The performance of the network will be greatly depend on the network devices kind, types and
quality being used in the organization. When the devices of the network are good and of high
quality there is an expectation to increase the overall performance and the business productivity.
There are two major devices discussed in this concept namely the switch and the router. In this
concept the company that will be selected for providing the router is Cisco which is known well
for offering quality networking devices. Cisco Network Convergence System 5000 Series will
be recommended to CAC to be used. This route is very intelligent in the manner that it is able to
detect and filter anything which is suspicious from the traffic that gets in or go out of the network
by either allowing or blocking it before it enters to the internal network (Cisco, 2016).
Figure 4 Cisco Network Convergence System 5500 Series
Cisco Meraki MS225-48 Switch should be recommended to the CAC management when
network is set up. The reason for its recommendation is because it has 48 ports which have
crossover which are Auto-MDIX and can supports all the BaseT Ethernet connections
from10/100/1000 respectively (Cisco, 2018).
Figure 5 Cisco Switch MS225-48
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