Networking Fundamentals for ARR Company

Networking Fundamentals
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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Designed wide area network solution.........................................................................................................3
Designed local area network solution for the company’s head office.........................................................4
Type of local area network wiring recommended.......................................................................................5
Type of local area network topology and protocol recommended.............................................................6
Topologies...............................................................................................................................................6
Protocols..................................................................................................................................................6
Floor plan for each floor at the company’s head office...............................................................................7
General department floor plan................................................................................................................7
Marketing department floor plan............................................................................................................8
Sales department floor plan....................................................................................................................9
Summary...................................................................................................................................................10
Reference..................................................................................................................................................11

Introduction
This is a report about the Arr company which has a total of six offices which are located in
Melbourne town and the surrounding suburbs, this company management had decided to install a
network that will cover the six offices and enable the communication internally and externally
where the users will be able to share files, send some e-mails, access internet and use the
network intranet.
However in each office there are servers and internet access devices to enable internet access,
however the head office is located in Melbourne city within a story building where it occupies
the top three floors for various office departments including general department with on first
floor with 32 workstations, the marketing department in second floor with 20 workstations and
marketing department in the third floor with 38 workstations.
Therefore the main aim of this report is to design the companies wide area network, design head
office local area network, determination of the wiring connection types to be used in head office ,
to determine the local area network topologies and protocols and drawing of the head office floor
plans.
Designed wide area network solution

The figure above shows the infrastructural design of the Arr company wide area network where
the six offices are connected to their respective local area networks which are made of star
network, in the respective local area networks there are local servers for storing the office
information which can be accesses by the office staffs in the office or outside the office for the
file sharing purposes [5].
However the office networks are locally connected using the switch devices that connects
together the end devices like the computers and the servers the switch also connects the local end
devices to the network router. The routers in the individual offices are then used to link to the
other routers in the other offices to make the wide area network [4].
In the head office there is the internet access point which supplies the internet to the entire wide
area network through the internet service providers, however in the head office the general
department is the one responsible to maintain or offer support to the entire wide area network
and therefore the e-mail server is located there.
Designed local area network solution for the company’s head office