Advanced Network Design: Redesigning Hotel Network - MN621

This report presents a comprehensive redesign of the network infrastructure for Barranquilla Plaza Hotel, focusing on addressing existing issues and aligning the network with business requirements. The project begins with a thorough collection of information through questionnaires distributed to users, management, and IT staff to identify pain points and desired improvements. The redesign process involves analyzing the existing network, creating application profiles for different areas of the hotel, and developing a cost-effective plan for implementing new network devices and connections. Technical goals and constraints are considered, with a focus on minimizing costs while ensuring high-quality network performance and security. The report includes a demonstration of the proposed network design and a bibliography of relevant resources, aiming to enhance the hotel's business processes and consumer management through improved network services. Desklib offers a wide array of resources, including past papers and solved assignments, to support students in their academic endeavors.

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Advanced Network Design
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Table of Contents
PART I: Collection of Information...................................................................................................2
Questionnaires set for Users......................................................................................................2
Questionnaires set for Management..........................................................................................2
Questionnaires set for IT Staffs...................................................................................................3
Purpose of Questionnaires.........................................................................................................3
PART II: Network Redesign and Documentation.............................................................................3
Demonstration................................................................................................................................5
Bibliography....................................................................................................................................7

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PART I: Collection of Information
Here in this project, an existing network design will be modified for Barranquilla Plaza Hotel.
Hence it is required to identify issues with the design of the network and this is to be according to the
business requirements. However, to collect those requirements, users, management and IT staff of the
hotel will be contacted and they will be asked to provide their personal opinion and insight about the
issues that is relevant to the network. Some initial questions have considered in this purpose and based
on that some questionnaires will be designed. This questionnaire will then be distributed to users,
management team and IT staff of the hotel so that an accurate description of the issues and implement
solution to those issues. The questionnaires have been discussed in this context.
Questionnaires set for Users
 Does the routers in the network provide accurate signal and if improvement is needed in this
context?
 Is average signal strength of the Wi-Fi is acceptable for conducting services that requires
internet connection?
 Is there is significant drop in the quality of the voice and video call and how frequent it is?
 Is there any issue while downloading content from the online sites?
 Does network error is shown while downloading online content and Does downloading of
content is resumed when connection is back or is it started from the first
 Is there is any facility to share files wirelessly to other devices through the network and is it
reliable or not?
 What is the speed for wireless file transfer and does improvement in speed is required?
 Has network equipment is of latest edition and the software that is required for network
management is latest or not?
Questionnaires set for Management
 How many users on an average is connected with the network and how many users are required
to server through this network facility in a single time?
 What are the areas where maximum connection speed is required and how many areas requires
wireless connection facility?
 Is the network solution that is considered for the organization is upgraded and if not how old
this network infrastructure is?

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 Has any security issue identified with the network and is there any instance where incident like
security breach identified?
 Is it required to monitor the network from any preferred place?
 Does existing network considers this place from where organization need to monitor network
activities for ensuring effective control for the network related application?
Questionnaires set for IT Staffs
 What is the internet plan that the organization have for their internet facilities?
 How many departments are there in the hotel and is there any difference in type of application
that the network should provide to them?
 Does exiting network plan has proper security control that offers security to the application of
various departments of the hotel?
 Is there any categorization of the hotel departments in terms of amount of bandwidth required?
Are there any departments that require high network bandwidth all the time and is there any
scope in the existing network to provide this facility to those departments of the hotel?
Purpose of Questionnaires
When a network is redesigned it is a complex process for which proper information is required
and this is to be identified from the users of the network as they provide insight about the issues in the
network and also pervades a comprehensive overview about the modification that is required to make
the design of the network consistent with the requirements of the users. The questionnaires hence
designed in this purpose aims to provide description in various aspects such as what are the issues with
the network, what features need improvement, what features are best of the existing design and how to
do that modification according to the design requirements.
PART II: Network Redesign and Documentation
In order to design the network effectively and provide an efficient network solution
identification and analysis of the network issues is required and this is done before the design of the
plan is made. The floor plan for the existing network design is studied in detail so that it is easier to
install new network device and connections according to the new design plan. Analysis of the floor plan
also provides a detailed guide in deciding number of access point to be designed so that coverage to the
hotel departments are provided. the existing network framework is analysed properly which allows to
derive some well-designed features from the network design that Barranquilla Plaza Hotel in Colombia

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already have which helps in executing their business through network related services and network
applications.
The network provides services to various areas within the hotel and hence it is important to
ensure that service to each of these areas are proper and hence monitoring to the service provided to
these areas is required. In order to do this, application profile is created which helps in collecting area
wise network speed and network related issues. This application profile also helps to configure VTY
server which helps to share client related information. Along with that application profile also provide
assistance VTP sever which manages configuration for different switch in the network and there is no
requirement for crating separate configuration for different switches. Along with that application profile
also provide assistance to share VLAN information between devices which helps in identifying issues
regarding networking devices and thus bringing improvement in the overall network performance.
First of all, a detailed analysis is done to identify technical goals regarding this project. This
analysis also identifies constraints that IT staff and manage encounters in properly managing their
services and consumers. IT personnel are therefore invited to participate in a brainstorming session so
that these issues are discussed which will help in redesigning the network in an appropriate way that
provides enhanced network services for improving business process and consumer management.
Another important requirement for this network redesign is to minimize the cost for redesigning
the network. Hence cost estimation is done considering cost for various network devices, hardware and
required software.
Although communication with the respective project stakeholders regarding network design
description and issues will be done for providing details regarding project implementation process, if
there is any issue in the communication, the best choice for network devices and resources will be made
in the project. A detailed measurement for coverage area will also be done for estimation of number of
access point that is required for the network redesign. This estimation will also help in estimating
required cable length for installing access point for providing network facility through wireless
connection. This will also help in estimating budget for the network redesign.
In order to ensure that the devices, hardware and software selected for this network design is of
high quality, standard quality and performance metric is developed. This will help in ensuring that the
network resources acquired in this project is consistent with design requirements. It is also ensured that

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the network design and network performance is not affected sue to selection of low quality network
devices and network resources.
The design that is considered in this project for resolving issues for enhancing the business
process of the hotel:
Demonstration

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