University Network Design and Documentation of AgriDigital Report

This report presents a comprehensive network design and documentation for AgriDigital, focusing on the transformation of its network infrastructure. It begins by outlining the requirements and specifications, followed by detailed logical and physical network diagrams. The report then delves into the practical aspects, including a test plan, quality management plan, work breakdown structure (WBS), budget, and change control plan, complete with change request forms, change logs, and meeting minutes. The design incorporates VPNs and VLANs for efficient network management across LAN and WAN topologies. The physical design details the network equipment and their locations. The test plan ensures the functionality of various network components, while the quality management plan focuses on monitoring and controlling the quality of the network transformation. The WBS and budget provide a structured approach to project execution. The report concludes with a summary of the findings and references.

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Network Design and Documentation of AgriDigital
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Summary
The objective of the following report is to identify the requirements for transforming the
network infrastructure of AgriDigital and provide the logical and physical network design
diagrams based on these requirements. The design as well as physical layout of the network
structure also gets discussed to show how the beneficial network services are obtained. Then
the documentation includes testing and management portions of the report where the test
plan, quality management plan, WBS, budget and change control plan is given along with
change request form, change log and minutes of meeting. The report then ends with
observations in concluding notes.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................4
Discussion..................................................................................................................................4
Requirements and Specifications...........................................................................................4
Logical Design.......................................................................................................................4
Physical Design......................................................................................................................5
Test Plan.................................................................................................................................6
Quality Management Plan......................................................................................................7
WBS and Budget....................................................................................................................8
Change Control Plan..............................................................................................................0
Change Request Forms..........................................................................................................0
Change log.............................................................................................................................1
Issue log.................................................................................................................................2
Minutes of Meeting................................................................................................................3
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................4
References..................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
The report is about identifying the requirements of transforming AgriDigital’s
network infrastructure and provide logical and physical network diagrams according to those
requirements. The report begins discussing with the design and continues to the physical
layout of the network structure for showing the beneficial network services are obtained
(Costa et al., 2017). Then the report enters the testing and project management part where the
report proceeds further to provide the where the test plan, quality management plan, WBS,
budget and change control plan is given along with change request form, change log and
minutes of meeting. The report then provides observations in conclusions section.
Discussion
Requirements and Specifications
The network of the company is supposed to comprise of VPNs (Hoque et al., 2015).
VLANs need to be set up among the network for different rules and policies for different
types of devices (Nguyen & Kim, 2016). The networking topologies that are to be used by the
company network are the Local Area Network (LAN) topology and Wide Area Network or
WAN topology by the head office and branch office respectively de (Carvalho Silva et al.,
2017).

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Logical Design
Figure 1: Logical Network Diagram
The logical network of the company includes the various servers of multiple networks
of the Internet (Curran, Fenton & Freedman, 2016). The router of the ISP is connected to this
interconnection of networks and thus the access to internet becomes available to the ISPs or
Internet Service Providers (Quach, Thaichon & Jebarajakirthy, 2016). These ISPs route the
internet access to routers of their customers like the company AgriDigital, the router of which
routes the network access to the core switch of head office as well as the router at the branch
office. This core switch then distributes the network to the lower layer switches of the head
office. The lower layer switches of the head office are tasked with providing network access
the individual device present in the network of the head office. These devices are the servers,
workstations, peripheral services and laptops. Connections to groups of similar devices are
ensured through the creation of VLANs. Connection to laptops are ensured by configuring
DHCP protocol settings in the WLAN connectors (Younes, 2016). The router of the branch
office is connected with that of the head office over a LAN of LAN network or in other
words a WAN network topology.

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Physical Design
Figure 2: Physical Network Diagram
From the physical network diagrams, it can be seen that the network of the two
branches of the company, head office and branch office are connected together through a
WAN network topology. The network equipment at the head office are located in three
different rooms (Samdanis, Costa-Perez & Sciancalepore, 2016). These are the network
room, the server room and the workplaces. The branch office consists of workstations and
servers to serve the respective services required from them.
Test Plan
AgriDigital Test Plan
Item_No
.
Req_No
. Req_Desc Test_Desc Test_Date
Remark
s
F001 RE_1.1
Office
Firewall
Test User
Credentials
verification
07.05.201
9
R001 RE_1.2
Office
Router
Check
Network
configuration
in router
07.05.201
9
S001 RE_1.3 Office Switch
Check VLAN
configuration
in switches
07.05.201
9

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WL01 RE_1.4
Wireless
Access Point
Check DHCP
configuration
in WLAN
connector
10.05.201
9
SE01 RE_1.5 Servers
Check network
connection to
Server
13.05.201
9
WS01 RE_1.6
Workstation
s
Check network
connection to
Workstation
13.05.201
9
VL01 RE_2 VLAN
Check IP of
devices in
same VLAN
15.05.201
9
VPN1 RE_3 VPN
Check opening
of censored
content.
17.05.201
9
WN01 RE_4 WAN
Check network
connection of
Branch
network
devices
20.05.201
9

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Quality Management Plan
Quality Planning Quality
Control
Quality Assurance Quality
Improvement
Plan Do Check Act
What
must
be
done
Determine quality
and performance
of the network
Monitoring of
network equipment
for performance,
reliability and
security
Check whether
quality obtained is
appropriate
Increase of
efficiency and
effectiveness of
the transformation
process and
corrective actions
When
it
shoul
d be
done
Network Planning
Processes
 VPN
Installatio
n
 Network
Scope an
 Team
Managem
ent
 Activity/
Schedule
 Resource
Estimation
Executing
transformation and
Control
Processes
 Executing
transformati
on and
Controls
identified
 Lessons
that were
learnt
Executing
transformation and
Control
Processes
 Executing
transformati
on and
Controls
identified
Executing
transformation,
Controls and
planning
Processes
 Managem
ent of
Changes

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 Project
Delivery
Strategy

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WBS and Budget
Network Transformation
Start Office Firewall
Test User Credentials
Verification
Office Router
Check Network
configuration in router
Office Switch
Check VLAN configuration
in switches
Wireless Access Point
Installation
Check DHCP configuration
in WLAN connector
Server Installation
Check network
connection to Server
Workstations Installation
Check network connection
to Workstation
VLAN Verification
Check IP of devices in
same VLAN
VPN Verification
Check opening of
censored content.
WAN Verification
Check network
connection of Branch
network devices
End Project
(Figure 3: The Work Breakdown Structure for the Project)
(Source: Created by author)

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ItemNo Product Price
Itm_01 Firewall $100.02
Itm_02 Router $221.86
Itm_03 Switch $444.71
Itm_04 WLAN controller $650
Itm_05 Server $14,181
Itm_06 Workstation $2,499.77
Total $18097.36
Budget Table

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Change Control Plan
Change Proposal Transformation of Network
Review Required hardware can come DOA, expensive equipment
cost, transformation to be scheduled between work hours,
resources include network bandwidth and network
equipment.
Reasons for changing The change is to ensure stability, reliability and security of
the network.
Project Report In review
Implementation of changes Stakeholders
Results Reduced expense in network problems
Document Change Document
Authorized by Stakeholders
Date 06.05.2019
Change Request Forms
Project Name Network Infrastructure set up
Requested By Project Sponsor Date 7th May
Request No 3 Name of Request Network
Transformation
Change Description Installation of additional network equipment for ensuring better
performance, reliability, stability and security
Change Reason Fresh requirement from project sponsor
Change Impact