Network Design Proposal for Ministry of Education

USER
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION [Company address]
NETWORK DESIGN

Table of Contents
Introduction........................................................................................................... 2
Project scope......................................................................................................... 2
Project requirements............................................................................................. 2
Hardware requirements...................................................................................... 2
Network design and analysis................................................................................. 3
Design A............................................................................................................. 3
Design B............................................................................................................. 4
Network performance............................................................................................ 4
Network performance factors.............................................................................4
Performance analysis......................................................................................... 5
Innovative ideas.................................................................................................... 5
Conclusion............................................................................................................. 6
References............................................................................................................. 7

Introduction
This document is a proposal for a suitable network design of a company.
The company has five departments which are the Human Resource, CEO,
Finance, Booking, and Travels department. There must be linking local
area network in the different departments to allow sharing of resources by
the employees according to the privileges granted by the system.
Project scope
The purpose of this project is to propose a suitable network design for the
transport company. The design should be able to accommodate all system
users and also enable efficient data flow throughout all departments in the
company. Each department will have its virtual LAN which will allow
communication and sharing of resources among members in the
department. Three members of the group came up with different network
design diagram that will fulfill the network requirements of the company
network. This report compares, contracts and analyze the network
performance parameters of the proposed designs.
Project requirements
Each member of the group came up with different network requirements.The
requirements included, hardware requirements, software requirements, and
nonfunctional requirements.
Hardware requirements
Implementing the project will require several network devices. The
number of hardware components required will depend on the size of the
company which is influenced by the amount of work handled by the
company’s LAN [1].The following hardware requirements were required to
implement the network, routers,switches,computers, and cables.
Software requirements
This is applications that will make the network up and running.The
requirements, in this case, includes operating systems and user
applications and functional requirements
Functional and non-functional requirements
This describes various goals that the network design should be able to
accomplish.They include the following.
 Communication among different departments.