Priority Advertising Network Design and Server Configuration Proposal

This project proposes a comprehensive network design and server configuration for Priority Advertising, a marketing and advertising firm. The proposal addresses the firm's need for reliable and fast network connections, including a functional webmail service. It covers various aspects, including t...Read More

Executive Summary
Network communication is a set-up that is used to establish a mutual
network that can be used for communication and interaction within the
network. Some of the activities that occur over the network include file
sharing, printers and other communications such as the use and the
operation of email service for an organization. During the meeting on the
occurrence of the interview, some of the issues raised include lack of
reliable and fast network connection including lack of a functional webmail
service that can be used for communications and relations within the
organization.
The aim of the project is aimed at attaining the goals and covering up the
issues outlined in the meeting during the interview. Some other factors
considered for the project is the identification of a software/hardware which
can be able to handle various functions including the editing and video
capturing.

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Project Proposal.........................................................................................................................2
Need statements............................................................................................................................................
Goals and Objectives....................................................................................................................................
Methodology.................................................................................................................................................
Technical Solutions.......................................................................................................................................
Budget Summary...........................................................................................................................................
Future Plans...................................................................................................................................................
Activity 1:....................................................................................................................................4
Activity 2.....................................................................................................................................5
Activity 3.....................................................................................................................................7
Activity 4.....................................................................................................................................7
Activity 5.....................................................................................................................................8
Activity 6.....................................................................................................................................9
Activity 7...................................................................................................................................10
Recommendation......................................................................................................................10
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................10
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Introduction
Priority Advertising Corporation is an organization which is located in
Brisbane whose main areas of operations include rendering among other
activities like shooting and editing. The main areas of focus for the
organization are in the field of films and rendering. The organization has an
office at Brisbane which has offices consisting of marketing, advertising,
accounting with a total of 4 floors.
The machines at the employees' offices are usually connected using
switched with a series of several ports connected at each of the ends of the
switches. For the operations such as design, each of the employees'
machines must contain a memory of 8GB consisting of 500GB for the hard
drive. The organization has a total of 10 employees for the editing team
department whose machines operations are required to operate on high-
resolution graphics for the design of certain software.
Project Proposal
Need statements
The requirements and the required procedures for the implementation
include the network design which contains the layout and the steps for the
purposes of installation. The server installation process requires both the
hardware and the software requirements present.
Goals and Objectives
The main aim of this project is the configuration and the installation of a
server and a network-based design which is dependent on the network
design (Singh, 2015). The goals involve the installation and the
configuration of the server. After all the requirements which include both
the hardware and the software are provided. The server installation can
then proceed in such a way that each of the given steps can be implemented
independently.
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Methodology
This follows the specified paradigms and the plans which include the design
and implementation of the server. The network design is outlined in such a
way that the implementation of the same is done. The implementation
follows the paradigms and the steps which are included in the network
design and the layout. All the steps and the phases are strictly followed to
ensure that the network design is implemented and successful for each of
the given departments.
Technical Solutions
Some of the technical solutions involved include the implementation of the
network design and control of the server. The server should be controlled
asynchronously such that each of the requests made from any computing
device should be able to accompanied by a response.
The implementation of the server and the network is dependent and based
on the network design. The design contains all the steps which are used in
the installation process.
Budget Summary
Product Price
Processor $22
Memory $63
Hard Disk $52
DVD $100
Sound Card $20
Modem $23
Network Card $25
Printer $103
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Internet $36
Speakers $48
Monitor $68
The estimated price for the requirements is $560 which includes the
internet installation and the network devices.
Future Plans
The server needs to be centralized between the network nodes to increase
the speed with which data is collected from the nodes. Each of the nodes
should be situated strategically around the central server.
Activity 1:
General use
The employees are currently working with PCs with 2GB RAM with 250GB hard drive running
on windows which are out of date. The following computer systems will best fit the IT upgrade.
Device Model Specifications Price
Printer Brother MFC-
J6945DW
INKvestment
Tank Color
4 ink colors, automatic printing
duplex, 1-pass color
$299.99
Desktop HP Core i3, I.6GHz, 4GB RAM, 500
GB hard disk space, 64 bit,
Windows 10 pro
$205.00
Processor Intel Core i5-8400 Desktop processor, 6
cores, 4.0GHz LGA 300 series
$199.99
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Graphics production
The graphics production office is operating with 8GB RAM computers which have 500 GB hard
disk space and still operation on windows 7. The following computers and printers will help
them run the necessary software for video development (Gao et al., 2016).
Device Model Specifications Price
Printer Brother
Business Color
Laser printer
Wireless networking, HL-
L8360CDW.
$349.50
Desktop HP pavilion Intel core i7-8700, 1 TB hard disk
space, 12 Gb RAM, Windows 10
$786.00
Film production
The film production team will include a manager in charge of tracking the project and managing
part-time workers, film production editors who will require a computer with at least 16 GB RAM
and a film crew who requires a mobile computer to connect to the network wirelessly. The
following devices will facilitate their work (Kuzlu, Pipattanasomporn, and Rahman, 2014).
Device Model Specifications Price
Printer Brother
Business Color
Laser printer
Wireless networking, HL-
L8360CDW.
$349.50
Desktop HP pavilion Intel Core i7-8700, 1 TB hard disk
space, 16 Gb RAM, Windows 10
pro
$886.00
Camera Nikon
COOLPIX B500
40x Optical Zoom, 16MP Digital
Camera
&269.00
Laptop Hp 820 Core i5, 1TB Hard disk
storage, 8GB RAM, 2.50GHz
processor, windows 10
$499.99
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Activity 2
The following are specifications for the proposed server that will support the firm’s email and
FTP (Garcia-Luna-Aceves and Vutukury, 2010).
Component Recommendation
Processor One Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 v6
Series; Pentium®, Core® i3, and Celeron®
up to 8MB
Memory RAM: Up to 64GB
Hard Disk Storage: Up to 40TB HDD |
CD-ROM/DVD External CD/DVD Drive, Haiway USB 3.0
Portable CD/DVD +/-RW Drive Slim
CD/DVD ROM Rewriter Burner Superdrive
High-Speed Data Transfer for Desktop PC,
Laptop, Linux OS, Windows 7/8.1/10
USB Ports 8 USB ports
Video Card MSI Gaming GeForce GT 710 2GB GDRR3
64-bit HDCP Support
Sound Card USB Sound Card, TechRise USB External
Stereo Sound Adapter Splitter Converter with
Volume Control for Mac and Windows.
Modem
NETGEAR CM500-1AZNAS (16x4)
DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem, Max download
speeds of 686Mbps, Certified for Xfinity
from Comcast, Spectrum, Cox, Cablevision
& more (Renewed)
Network card(s) Up to 9 ports: 1x onboard 1Gbps Ethernet
std; 2 opt. 2/4-port 1Gb Ethernet adapters
Operating System Microsoft Windows Server 2016 and
2012R2, Client (Microsoft Windows 10),
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server, VMware
Vsphere (ESXi).
Monitor 174.75mm (W) x 374.90mm (H) x
430.78mm (D)/6.88 inches (W) x 14.76
inches (H) x 16.96 inches (D); Max.
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12,5kg/27.6.lbs
Printer HP OfficeJet 3830 All-in-One Wireless
Printer,
Speakers DOSS SoundBox Touch Wireless Bluetooth,
12H Playtime, V4.0 Portable Speaker with
Bass and HD Sound, Portable Wireless
Speaker, Built-in Mic.
Internet connection Ethernet and wireless
Activity 3 (Tang et al., 2010)
Fig 1: Network Diagram
Activity 4
Device Specifications Price
Multilayer switch Cisco 48 Ports, Stackable,
10G Uplink, 4 SFP Ports,
$5,500.00
Layer 2 switch Cisco Catalyst Switch, 24
Ports 1G Uplink (Niranjan et
al., 2009)
$231
Access point Cisco Wireless router, WEP,
WPA, WPS, WPA2-
$499.00
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Enterprise security, 7 wired
LAN ports
Router Cisco router, SEC Lic, VSEC
Bundle, CUBE- 25, PVDM4-
64 w/ UC.
$7000.00
Printer Brother Wireless All-in-One
Inkjet Printer, Mobile
Printing, MFC-J491DW,
Duplex Printing Multi-
Function Color Printer.
$59.99
Scanner Brother Mobile Color Page
Scanner, Fast Scanning
Speeds, Lightweight and
Compact, DS-620.
$101.00
The cisco wireless router selected as the preferred access point to be implemented in the firm’s
network utilizes WEP, WPA, WPS, WPA2-Enterprise to provide a secure connection. Network
security is key and these feature provided by the wireless router facilitates authentication where
user identity is confirmed before gaining access to the system. Brother Wireless All-in-One
Inkjet Printer has been suggested because of its high processing and printing speed. It also has
duplex printing and mobile printing features (Joshi and Shuen, 2011).
Activity 5
Protocols are methods that are used for the exchange of information and
data between the computing devices. Communication between the devices
is triggered and enables by the use and the implementation of the internet
and network-enabled devices (Asati, Droms, and Bollapragada, 2015). Data
transmission occurs through the interconnection and is aided by the use of
the internet.
Dial-up internet access is a technology that operates like the modem, for
instance, modulation and demodulation. This type of technology can be used
by an organization that has a limited budget and lacks funds for the
implementation and the installation of a network service (Comer, 2018).
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Reliable internet connection can be used for the transfer and serving of
available resources from one computing device to another (Thakkar, Zhang,
and Koponen, 2016).
Some of the technologies which operate just like the dial-up include Digital
lops which are used in accordance with a telephony-based mobile service.
Asymmetric loops can also be used in the same way that the digital loop
operates.
Internet cabling can be used to provide faster and reliable internet
connection in the cases where the internet connection is poor, for instance,
in some of the places like the rural areas (Rahim et al., 2018).
Wireless Broadband (WiBB) this is the modest internet access technology
allowing the conveyance of high-speed internet within a large range area. It
uses the microwave technology where there are the transmitter and the
receiver on the other end. The waves are then demodulated and behold you
have internet (Chen et al., 2017).
Wi-Fi has become one of the modest means of internet connection which
has become widespread for the devices to access the internet. The Wi-Fi is
able to cover a wide range and able to increase the speed with which the
devices can be able to access internet connections.
Activity 6
Subnet Network
Address
Subnet Mask First
usable IP
address
Last
usable IP
address
Broadcast
ing
Address
10.10.0.0/
24
194.32.9.
0
255.255.255.
240
194.32.9.0 194.32.9.0 194.0.0.0
10.10.0.0/
24
194.32.9.
1
255.255.255.
240
194.32.9.1
/28
194.32.9.1
/28
194.0.0.0
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10.1.0.0.0
/24
194.32.9.
2
255.255.255.
224
194.32.9.2
/27
194.32.9.2
/27
194.168.0.
0
10.10.0.0/
24
194.32.9.
3
255.255.255.
192
194.32.9.3
/26
194.32.9.3
/26
194.168.0.
0
10.10.0.0/
24
194.32.9.
4
255.255.255.
128
194.32.9.4
/25
194.32.9.4
/25
194.168.0.
0
Device interface IP address Subnet Mask Default
Gateway
Router WAN 194.32.9.0 10.0.0.0 194.32.9.0
Switch LAN 194.32.9.1/28 10.10.0.0 194.32.9.0
Switch LAN 194.32.9.2/27 10.10.0.0 194.32.9.0
Switch LAN 194.32.9.3/26 10.10.0.0 194.32.9.0
Access Point Wireless 127.168.7.10
4/25
10.1.0.0 127.168.7.0
Activity 7
An IP is a unique address that is allocated to a certain computing device for
the purposes of accessing the internet. A public address is accessible to
every computing device (Zhuo, 2019). The IP addresses allocated can either
be dynamic or static depending on the mode of operation of the computer
and the type of connection. Two computers cannot be allocated the same IP
address in the same network. Each computer has its own unique address
within the network except for the public address. The addresses enable the
devices to access the internet and be able to serve the resources from the
internet.
A private network, on the other hand, is a preserved type of network service
which is mainly used by an organization within its premises only. Such type
of network services can be used in schools and government agencies which
are used to prevent and only limit their devices and resources to the scope
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of the organization only (Danforth, 2018). For the devices to be able to
share resources and data within the organization, they must be connected
and have access to the internet. A private network can be limited access by
the use of a firewall that can be able to prevent and limit access to a certain
type of network devices only. These types of network devices can only be
known to the organization (DeCenzo et al., 2018).
Recommendation
The server and the wireless network nodes should be synchronized to
reduce latency between the data upload and transmission (Singh, 2015).
Packets which have not been transmitted from the nodes to the server
should be retransmitted. To avoid the problem of packet loss, data streams
sent to the server should be in synch with the endpoints at the server.
Conclusion
In summary, a network comprises sets of two or more computers that are
linked together in order to share resources and communicate. Computers
cannot share resources or communicate well without the use of a network.
In order to achieve the main goals of a network, designing of the network is
crucial (Franck, 2016).
In addition to components and the physical devices linked to the network,
software and firewall are part of the network implementation (Singh, 2015).
The intrusion detection system and products of the software such as
firewalls are among the security measures that can be implemented in a
network to achieve the desired goals.
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