Skillage IT Organization Network Design

This assignment focuses on designing a small-scale network for the Skillage IT organization. It requires outlining network design principles, addressing user, business, and security needs, and considering ongoing maintenance support. The document delves into top-down methodology, network documentation practices, user documentation (including network access control), and directory structure considerations. Finally, it emphasizes identifying key IT needs and aligning the network design with the organization's goals.

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Table of Contents
Business Requirements........................................................................................................................2
Technical Requirements......................................................................................................................2
System Specification............................................................................................................................2
Server Specifications...........................................................................................................................3
Network Design....................................................................................................................................4
Development of Program Specification..............................................................................................5
Develop Detailed Technical Design....................................................................................................5
Technical Documentation...................................................................................................................5
Configure an Internet Gateway..........................................................................................................6
Top down Methodology.......................................................................................................................6
Network Documentation.....................................................................................................................7
User Documentation............................................................................................................................7
On-going Maintenance Support.........................................................................................................7
Directory Structure.............................................................................................................................7
IT needs................................................................................................................................................8
References............................................................................................................................................8
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Business Requirements
The Skillage I.T organization business requirements are based on business goals and
constraints. The Business requirements are optimizing the network costs and availability. The
Business requirements are containing the three basic elements such as network variable,
performance constraints and environment givens. These are establishing the network
availability requirements. The business requirements are used to increase the performance. It
provides the flexibility and scalability of the organization (Kurose & Ross, n.d.).
Technical Requirements
The technical requirements for skillage I.T organization is based on technical goals
and trade-offs. The Technical requirements provide the effective infrastructure for an
organization. It provides the,
• Serviceability
• Availability
• Manageability
• Stability
• Scalability
• Affordability
System Specification
The Skillage IT organization network infrastructure has the following network hardware
components. They are,
• Cisco Directory Server
• Cisco Router
• Cisco Switches
• Cisco File Server
• Cisco Main Server
• Dell Computers
• Canon Printers
• Gateways
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• CSUs/DSUs
• Network Cards (NICs)
• System Area Network Cards
Software Components
Operating System – Windows
Hard Drive - 2 GB RAM
Memory - 2.2 GB
Drive space - 200 MB
System Component Specification are discussed in below.
Cisco Routers - 4221 Integrated Services Router
The integrated services routers are used to combine the network, security and
application services on an organization. It provides the flexible and scalability of the network.
It provide the highly secure VPN access for remote employees.
Cisco Switches - Cisco Catalyst 4948 Switch
The cisco catalyst switches are used to provide the exceptional serviceability and reliability
for an organization. It has the following features,
 IPv6
 ACLs
 Stacking
 Layer 3 capabilities
 Quality of Service
 Power over Ethernet
 Spanning Tree
Cisco server - Cisco UCS C240 M4 Rack Server
The cisco servers are provides the superior performance and expandability. It
designed to deliver the efficiency for I/O intensive and storage infrastructure workloads. The
server includes the bare metal applications, graphics rich, virtualization and big data
analytics.
Server Specifications
The Proposed network infrastructure uses the directory and file server. The server
specification includes the following function such as application CPU requirements,
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operating system, expected application transaction volume, Application functional
characteristics and application memory requirements. The specification of server also
requires the access requirements for a network. It defines the numbers of user requiring the
simultaneous access to the network applications (NETworking, 2013). The server
specifications include the backup policy, utilization, load, memory, storage and devices
connected to the server.
Server Test Plan
The server plan includes the following activities. These are,
• Test the network connectivity
• Test the network external and internal access
• Test the ability of network developers to access the various development, production
and environments.
• Test the web servers are online
Server Maintenance Plan
The maintenance of server is the process of keeping the server updated or running
information to ensure the organization network. This process provides the effective network
infrastructure. It is a crucial to the business performance. The server maintenance is used to
monitor the entire network ("Ten steps for network documentation: Channel checklist",
2017).
Router Specifications
The Routers specifications are listed below.
• The network equipment has various capable types like WAN, MAN and LAN.
• It has the total number of ports that network equipment provides.
• It has maximum data transfer speed.
• It uses integrated firewall for security.
• It has smarter routing to assign the IP addressing.
• It operating the simultaneous frequency up to 5 GHz.
Security policy and Plan
The network security policies and plan are used to providing the secure network
infrastructure for an organization. It implements and developing the network security and it
helps to address the varied concerns. It meets the customer primary goals for network
security. The network security policies and plan are used to identify the network assets,
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analyse the security risks and requirements, implement the technical strategy and security
procedures, defines the security trade-offs and maintain the security.
Network Design
The above network design provides the proposed network infrastructure. The
proposed network infrastructure provides the flexibility and security of the network. The
network design also provides the end to end network solution for Skillage IT organization. It
using the cisco network devices to reduce the maintenance and operational costs. It provides
the productivity and security for an organization. The proposed network design has Cisco
routers, switches, directory server, file server, firewall and Computers. The Cisco firewall is
used to provide the network security.
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Development of Program Specification
A program specification is a formal document used to describe the network
programmer's details and products intended appearance, capabilities and interactions with
users. It provides the continuing and guideline reference point as the programmers. It is used
to describe the network products and requirements. It describes the network protocols,
standards and architectures to achieve the business and technical goals of a Skillage IT
organization.
Develop Detailed Technical Design
Detailed technical design of proposed network infrastructure was developed by the
Network Engineer. The Technical design was providing the overall network infrastructure
technical specifications. The detailed technical design includes the Technical specification
and system specifications. The technical specifications are used to provide the required
technical requirements for a network infrastructure. The System and technical specifications
are including the directory server, file server, database server and main server information. It
also defines the access requirements for a network infrastructure. The access requirements
include the number of users requiring the simultaneous access to the network applications. It
also includes the user communities such as network engineer, developer, vendors and other.
Technical Documentation
Technical documentation is used to provide the overall technical requirements for
proposed network infrastructure. It provides the technical information of the network design
and detailed information about the proposed network infrastructure needs. The Technical
documentation includes the details of following requirements. These are,
• User requirements
• Business requirements
• Security requirements
• Technical requirements
• Network design requirements
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Configure an Internet Gateway
Configuration of internet gateway includes the network configuration that meets the
skillage IT organization needs. It uses the Cisco end to end solution to provide the secure
internet gateway for an organization. It builds the data with secure network infrastructure for
Skillage IT organization. It established the private connection and deploys the internet
gateway to create the secure groups and work with access control lists. The internet gateway
was successfully configuring the proposed network infrastructure. It provides the end to end
network solution for a Skillage IT organization.
Top down Methodology
The Top down approach to design is refers to starting the designing from the top most
layer and moving down. The Top down network design is used to designing the enterprise
networks that provide the manageable, secure and reliable network for an organization. It
provides the overview of the system is specifying and formulated the network. It understands
the overall network infrastructure and provides the secure and flexibility of the network. It
easily achieves the balance in an investment portfolio. It analyses the risk by aggregating the
impact of internal operational failures ("Top-Down Network Design", 2017). It easily
measures the network variances in the economic variables that are not explained by the
external factors. The top down methodology mainly used to rely on historical data. The top
down methodology is used to describe the creation of a structure for business process tests
and it determining the test configurations for testing different use cases are needed. It
facilitated to designing the tests with reusable components and it create and maintaining the
overall network infrastructure.
Network Documentation
The Network documentation is used to provide the important and valuable
information to service providers. When network failure occurs network documentation
providing the backup for an organization. It ensures the smooth network documentation
policy and network topology diagram. The documentation policy should provide the network
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details need to be documented especially each server. It easily communicates to each network
administrator. It documented the server roles, IP addresses and names.
User Documentation
The Skillage IT organization user documentation includes the network access control.
The Network access control devices to help prevent a computer from victim of virus, Trojans,
spyware and spam. It replaces the resent applications with electric equivalent that associates a
organization community member with a computer.
On-going Maintenance Support
The ongoing maintenance support includes the following activities. They are,
• Organization work
• Fiscal Management
• Personnel Management
• Board Maintenance
• General Logistics
• Relationship with the larger community
• Organization spirit
Directory Structure
The skillage I.T organization directory structure includes the following aspects. They
are,
• Groups
• Organizational Units
• Sites.
The Organization using the directory server to store the groups and sites sensitive
information’s. It maintains the files into a hierarchy of folders. It should be stable and
scalable for an organization. It display the files in hierarchical tree structure.
IT needs
Designing the small-scale networks to meet the business and IT needs. The Network
IT needs is requiring the technologies and requirements to adopt new IT technologies to
achievement of business and technical goals. It identified the new technologies requirements
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to achieve the skillage IT organization goal of a proposed network designs. The IT needs are
easily discovering the network design basics. It based on user, business and security
requirements. It also meets the daily requirements of business and networks. It supports the
network applications and services to provide the access to the network resources
(Oppenheimer, 2017).
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