Detailed Network Design and Infrastructure Plan for Mandurah City

This project report presents a comprehensive network design for the city of Mandurah, Western Australia, addressing the IT needs of various city services and buildings. The report, written from the perspective of a consultant, details the design of both Local Area Networks (LANs) for sites like the Head Office, Aquatic and Recreation Centre, libraries, museum, and community centers, and a Wide Area Network (WAN) connecting these locations. It includes detailed network diagrams, analysis of required hardware and cabling, including network interface cards, Cat 6 cables, Cisco switches with VLAN capabilities, and various routing protocols. The report justifies the hardware selections and explores aspects of network security, including VLANs, firewalls, and encryption. Furthermore, it considers green IT solutions and makes assumptions about the network environment, such as the use of Windows 10 and wireless routers. The project concludes with a bibliography and aims to provide a fully functional network plan for the city, considering future scalability and efficiency.

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Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................3
Detailed network diagram.....................................................................................................................4
Mandurah Head Office (LAN).............................................................................................................4
Mandurah Aquatic and Recreation Centre (LAN)..............................................................................5
Mandurah Library (LAN)....................................................................................................................6
Falcon Library (LAN)...........................................................................................................................7
Mandurah Museum (LAN).................................................................................................................8
Mandurah Seniors and Community Centre (LAN)..............................................................................9
Mandurah Waste Management Centre (LAN).................................................................................10
Overall Wide Area Network.............................................................................................................11
Analysis of Network hardware and cabling required at a Local Area Network....................................11
Network Interface Cards – 1GBPS Network Card, 802.11AC Wireless.............................................11
Cables – Cat 6..................................................................................................................................12
Switch (48 Port, 1 GBPS Switch – Cisco) – VLAN Capable................................................................13
Router – Routing Protocols (RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, ISIS, OSPF, BGP)......................................................13
Servers (Print Server, File Server, Backup Server, Domain Controller)............................................13
PC’s..................................................................................................................................................14
Justification......................................................................................................................................14
Printers and Scanners......................................................................................................................14
Analysis of Network hardware and cabling required at a Wide Area Network level...........................15
What WAN Solution.........................................................................................................................15
Compare different solutions............................................................................................................15
Business WAN solutions..................................................................................................................15
Recommendation............................................................................................................................15
Detailed hardware and software.........................................................................................................15
Desktop OS......................................................................................................................................15

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Mobile OS........................................................................................................................................16
Switch OS.........................................................................................................................................16
Router OS........................................................................................................................................16
Standard Operating Environment (Windows 10, MS Office, Adobe Creative Cloud).......................16
Security............................................................................................................................................16
VLAN................................................................................................................................................16
Firewall............................................................................................................................................16
Encryption to scramble readable text into unreadable text............................................................16
Restrictions on user accounts..........................................................................................................16
Assumptions and Green IT considerations..........................................................................................17
Assumption 1: It is assumed that all PC’s in the Mandurah Head Office Use Windows 10 only......17
Assumption 2: It is assumed that all the networking centres would be having wireless router
connected to their system...............................................................................................................17
Solar Panels.....................................................................................................................................17
Low Energy Compliant Devices........................................................................................................17
Policy1: All the employees should be switching off the machines when they are not working on
them................................................................................................................................................17
Policy2: All Screens turn off after 5 minutes idle.............................................................................17
Bibliography.........................................................................................................................................18

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Introduction
The focus point of the report is to take into consideration the aspect of the network
infrastructure relating to the city of Mandurah. The information technology issue, which is faced in
the city, is taken care of by the local government of the Western Australia. I have been given the role
of a consultant who would be trying to address all the issues, which are majorly faced by the city and
take into consideration a solution to the network issue within the concept of the city. Taking into
consideration the city has different services and building that need the support of the information
technology and set up of the network. Hence, it can be stated here that the analysis of the city and a
set of fully functional plan relating to network would be mainly discussed in the report.
The network design which is related to the individual site and the services have been majorly
stated in the report and a network design which is related to the MAN for the whole design have
been provided into the report. The analysis and the description of the selection of the hardware has
been included for the aspect of giving a clear idea to the reader. Additional information, which is
related to the Green IT solutions and the development of the solution and hardware, have been
focused into the report.

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Detailed network diagram
Mandurah Head Office (LAN)

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Mandurah Aquatic and Recreation Centre (LAN)

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Mandurah Library (LAN)

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Falcon Library (LAN)

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Mandurah Museum (LAN)

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Mandurah Seniors and Community Centre (LAN)

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Mandurah Waste Management Centre (LAN)

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Overall Wide Area Network
Analysis of Network hardware and cabling required at a
Local Area Network
Network Interface Cards – 1GBPS Network Card, 802.11AC
Wireless
A Network Interface card (NIC) can be estimated to do the functions, which is intended to be
performed by the card. The main functionality of the network interface card is to provide an
interface onto a network (LAN usually) for a system of computer. A point-to-point connection
between the interfaces is usually known as a serial card rather than the concept of the NIC. On the
other hand, it can be stated as a network interface. In most of the common PC motherboards, it can
be stated that they usually have an Ethernet, which is built in. The model of the PC motherboard can
be considered to be created when the LAN has were in the infancy and were not widely used. Due to
his concept in order to get into the network, installation of the NIC had to be done. On the other
hand relating to the concept of the additional support if the system does not meet the expected
specification, the user can directly install more NIC cards in the option slot. In order to efficiently
connect the system to the network adaptor the installation of TP GigaBit PCI express card can be