Network Redesign Project: First National University (FNU)

This project analyzes the network redesign requirements for First National University (FNU), a large educational institution with multiple campuses and online programs. The current network faces performance, reliability, and expansion challenges due to outdated technology and increasing demands. The project identifies the university's business goals, including improving network speed, BYOD support, and enhancing IT infrastructure for enrollment growth and research. Technical goals encompass scalability, performance, security, and availability. Scalability strategies involve restructuring the network infrastructure, optimizing IP address schemes, and increasing bandwidth. Performance improvements focus on balancing workloads, optimizing network device configurations, and enhancing bandwidth management. Security measures address cyber threats and data protection. The project aims to provide a secure, high-performing, and scalable network to support FNU's educational and research activities.

Network Redesign
Overview
The mainly deals with FNU (First National university) which is known to be well known
institute which offers higher education to large number of public. It is generally defined as a
university that offers first higher education for the country. Apart from this it tends to offer
distance education facilities which is inclusive of various online programs. The university have
five regional campuses and ten metropolitan campuses apart from main campus of the university.
At present the university has been focused to provide diverge range of undergraduates and
programs for vocational along with educational training. There are more than 45,000 students
who are mainly associated for studying at diverse range of programs related to undergraduate
and post graduate programs. The university has a strength of more than forty-five thousand
students. Apart from this there exist for than 15000 students who are engaged in studying under
various online facilities and distance programs.
Mainly three facilities have been used for providing support for IT services which is
mainly inclusive of backup, headquarters and lastly operation. Headquarters mainly located in
the campus and also provides facilities that is located at a distance of 50 km. It is located away
from the headquarters that is owned by this university. Operational facility is mainly associated
with housing the various technical function that is located at the back office, data centre and
various kinds of staff members for the department of IT. The backup is mainly located at a
distance of 1000 km from the provided headquarters. University is mainly associated with the
facility of backup for the provided option of warm site for which an individual can easily get
option of failure during of operational functionality.

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Region and metropolitan campus are mainly associated in terms of main campus in
matters of size, staff members along with other kinds of technologies. IT infrastructure of this
university is mainly associated with usage of old and complex technologies. The university is
mainly associated with the usage of various kinds of protocols. This protocols will be again used
for establishing communication between campus and main server farm that is mainly located in
different locations. For providing support day to day learning and various kinds of activities,
academics and staff for academics which are mainly present in the university. It is mainly done
for the purpose for dealing with external partners which is inclusive of hospital, research centres
and various other kinds of ways which are not generally compatible with each other. Present
network of the university is encountering a large number of issues which is mainly related to
performance, reliability and various kinds of associated problems that is needed for expansion of
operation in the recent times. It has been seen that there is increase in the number of students
apart from providing information about kinds of details of complaint which are received from
various kinds of facilities. For this particular reason various people are not being able to submit
grades in an efficient way and also lags in maintain connection in a consistent way among the
colleagues which are present other unit. So, keeping a research or conducting various kinds of
task on daily basis is considered to be important.
Identification of Organization needs and Constraints
Business Goals
The ultimate business goal of this university is to identify the various needs of the
university and this is mainly inclusive of providing a proper network for student as well as other
kinds of facilities to work in a right way. Apart from this university is much focused to provide
the option of BYOD at both home and work. University mainly aims to provide a proper network

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which can be used at much faster rate. It can be used easily for helping large number of students
or staff members that are mainly associated with giving large number of courses for education.
University is mainly focused in improvisation of various kinds of IT infrastructure as they only
consider the fact that IT infrastructure is needed for enrolment process will grow to a large value
in upcoming years. Apart from this it is also considered for increasing the efficiency for faculties
and other units of the business. It is mainly done so that help other in taking active part in various
kinds of processes of research. It can be done by taking help from other people that are present in
other units or domains of the business. The university is also focused for improving the
efficiency of large number of students. It can be used for main purpose of helping large number
of students for obtaining good grades. It can be only achieved by providing faster submission and
doing their work in an efficient way. It also tends to provide remote access to the campus of
network for students along with facilities. It is mainly done by considering the fact students are
mostly involved in their homework.
Technical Goals
Scalability
First national university needs a list of scalability in their network which is needed for its
redesigning of the network:
 Structuring of present network infrastructure which the university has at present. It can be
achieved by the help of offloading of database of this FNU university. This ultimately
relates to the fact that one needs to stay away from the database as much as possible.
 It should not start or come with transaction until there is need of it. Various caches which
are present in the network needs to be removed. Overhaul of IP address scheme is also
much increased for various kinds of technical goals of this particular university.

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 Bandwidth of network which is provided by this university needs to be improved so that
it is available to large number of users. Increasing bandwidth of internet can be
considered as a plus point from the university side. Increasing of bandwidth needs to be
done because it comes up with large number of congestion.
 Congestion in the network mainly deals with dealing with large number of network
devices along with multiple links. Performance of network can be also increased to large
extend. Development in the network is considered to be much useful for large number of
people.
 New kinds of security parts or elements is mainly for securing the whole network. The
university can easily provide secure and private kind of wireless network for this
university.
 Response time for this university is considered to be of minimum value where various
students can easily work faster along with various process of network research processes.
Availability
A list of details of network requirements which is inclusive of number of steps have
discussed below.
 Availability with various kinds of network can be easily used by various kinds of network
of this university and this mainly focus on the fact of the various users to easily access
various information or different resources which are mainly needed for a specified
location and in proper format as per the requirement.
 Non-functionality of the system of this university and availability of information can be
also affected for the information which is being provided. Apart from this the servers are

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also secured and it can easily result in availability of information security is totally
affected.
 Availability of network has been compromised in such a way that it is to properly
delivering of information in a proper way. Proper availability of the network is ensured.
High availability of network is mainly linked with providing a proper structure for the
university and this can be again switched to a network as the university is addressing a
large number of issues.
 This is mainly used for increasing the large number of availability within a table with
respect to large number of application which mainly requires high availability of
resources or availability of a network. Apart from this identification of different regions
of network topology is mainly used for application in various industries.
 Proper planning is done for false tolerance and proper kind of hardware needs to be
replicated and apart from this there should be proper methods which can be used for
understanding hardware and fast bot based systems. Total kind of remote management is
considered to be helpful along with various kinds of fast bot. Proper kind of restore
mechanism should be used for the system of the university is addressing a large number
of problems.
Performance of Network
Performance of the network at present is being used by this university that can easily be
increased by addressing a large number of steps. The most vital part is to have an idea regarding
the understanding regarding the fact of use of network design. A list of requirements is there for
increasing performance of the network which are mainly required for developing phase of the
network. Restructure network device is mainly connected to the network.

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 Firstly, an analysis of the workload, number of users who are making use of framework
and area of university are needed to be properly covered by making use of network
infrastructure.
 Secondly, there should be a proper balance between the various bus loads which are
present in the system. Various kinds of faculties and student should be aware of the
effects of the network for unless process which can be used for increasing the speed of
then network. FNU should organize the university in such a way that it can provide safety
to different workshop with respect to needs of the provided network that can be used for
understanding the needs of the network. It is mainly providing a basic kind of
understanding which is needed for having a proper understanding of the various
requirements or needs of the project.
 It is mainly used for having an idea regarding the fact everyone is on the same page when
it comes up for best kinds of practices and configurations. The given sever of the
university mainly comprises of various kinds of I/O which is on the same provided bus.
Certain types of ideas are mainly needed which can be used for providing optimization to
same kind of bus. Users of the network should be well talented and is generally inclusive
of students and employee of this particular university.
 The fact is also taken into account that various employees of the organization are
properly equipment with tool. The processors should be given priority so that application
provided critical information to large number of users. This fact can be also used for
maintaining precious bandwidth of the network and can easily increase the processing
power for the providing algorithm that comes up with ferreting out along the organizing
and grouping out together in the form of data sets that can easily spread in the whole

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network which is provided. This can be considered to be useful in saving of precious kind
of bandwidth which is mainly present in the network which is provided.
 Along with there should be certain number of defence mechanism against the junk traffic
and this is mainly inclusive of antivirus, software, malware, spam filter, firewalls and
many other things.
 Along with this there should be certain number of existing defence mechanism for junk
traffic and this is mainly inclusive of antivirus, spam kinds of filters and many others. It
is also considered too important for keeping the provided network secured from any kind
of viruses or other kind of malware which is present there.
Security
A list of measures should be taken into account which can be used for increasing the
security of the provided network infrastructure in a proper way for this first national university
and is provided below:
 Security of the network is defined as an important kind of issue which needs to
encountered which mainly arises due to large number of cyber criminals along with
disgruntled employees and careless users that can easily result in bringing down of whole
computer system and also might result in losing of data that is provided.
 Security of the network of the university has been made up of various kinds of hardware,
policies, procedure and specific software. Various elements or parts of the security are
mainly designed in such a way that it can tackle defending of whole networks from both
internal and external threats.
 Most common kind of threat in the provided network is mainly inclusive of malicious
codes, DoSS attack, zero-hour attacks. There are large number of important methods or

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way which can be used by FNU that mainly ensures the fact it has strong kind of
password, updating of various kinds of patches, other kinds of elements which is used for
securing the VPN, removal of unwanted users and along with managing of access
privilege of various users.
 Various cyber criminals are mainly associated with exploiting the various kinds of
vulnerabilities that mainly present in the system, software application and various kinds
of web browsers. This mainly happens when the provided patches are not updated on
regular basis. Apart from this various kind of network and users should have proper kind
of password.
 Strong password relates to certain number of passwords which are considered to be
difficult to be detected by anyone. Encryption of data as authentication of identity is
known to be a well-known feature which is mainly inclusive of VPN. Any kind of
presence of network connection is defined to be vulnerable and can be exploited by
various kinds of hackers so that they can easily sneak or look into the network of the
university. This data is considered to be very much vulnerable when it is mainly
travelling through internet.
 It is vital for this university to have a review of documentation of various servers and
other kinds of VPN software’s. It is mainly done for analysing the making surety of the
fact it has strong protocols which is mainly used for the purpose of authentication and
various kinds of encryption techniques that can be easily used in the network. Multi-
factor authentication is generally defined as a well-known which is used for
authentication of the identity that is provided.

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 Apart from this inappropriate privilege of various user access is considered to be well
known threat of security. It can be easily managed by properly managing the access from
the user’s ends. Apart from this it is also important for maintaining of large number of
software that is mainly authorized so that can easily prevent large number of users from
downloading of any kind of software application.
 Various kinds of written policies of this provided university can easily affect the update.
Apart from this it can also affect the segregation of important data which is present in the
network. Segregation from user side can easily affect users apart the authentication which
is mainly used by them.
Manageability
A list of process or measures should be taken into account for increasing manageability
of the provided network:
 New kinds of networks can easily adapt to manageability in different ways. It can be
achieved firstly by proper maintenance of network which is mainly used by providing
good design and reusing of codes for integration of various kinds of device and
development of application. It can be issued at different provided levels in various
devices and same kinds of devices of same types.
 Even at certain number of steps consistency mainly focus on corresponding kind of
management which has been featured and has been instrumented to work at different
levels, behaving and working in a similar way. It should be adherence to proper kind of
management standards which is mainly used for supporting MIBs. It mainly promotes
consistency of in various kinds of management interface.

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 Self- management function generally tends to reduce the various kinds of necessities for
getting it managed in a proper way. Introspection capabilities are mainly considered to be
capable which mainly provides provide various kinds of application. This data is then
again comprised of meta information which is mainly concerned with various kinds of
data revisions and is mainly helpful for facilitating the proper design of data driven
application.
 Threshold parts for crossing alerts are mainly used. It is generally defined as a useful
management application which is mainly used for implementation of polling schemes and
making it much simpler thing. Different kinds of human management interfaces like CLI
can be easily put or applied into it. It can be easily done by making interaction with
various kinds of interacting devices and not specifically with application of management.
 For different kinds of management policies which provide support and also allow various
kinds of network managers for properly configuring of some kinds of management
policies. It can be easily achieved by the help of various kinds of activities of network
administrators. It can be easily done with the help of various interacting devices in a
direct way and not by the help of any kind of management application.
 Various kinds of management application are generally supported that allows various
kinds of network engineers in proper configuration of various network policies. It can be
easily done by proper tunning of various multiple kinds of low parameters.
Usability
The upcoming list provides an idea which is used for measuring and can be also used for
increasing the various kinds of usability of the network:

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 Usability mainly refers to the extent of ease by the help of which various kinds of
software and web application can be used for achieving various kinds of goals in required
and efficient way. It is also associated with improving the different levels of difficulty
which is mainly associated in various user’s interfaces.
 Instead of quantifying the usability can easily make use of indirect kind of measures and
this can be considered as a non-functional kind of requirement. It is mainly used for used
for increasing the effectiveness of the website and various system programs that are
mainly used in the network. And the product is mainly in such a way that it can easily
make use of good kind of usability which mainly focus on the fact it is learn and efficient
and satisfying all the needs for the users.
 Usability of network mainly focus on the fact it can be easily by this university which
mainly by three of major principles and it is mainly providing an iterative kind of focus
which is present on the various kinds of users which are present in the task. Designed in a
proper way it is considered as an iterative way.
 It is defined as computational model which needs to be created for the provided which
has three models and are putted in such a way that it can easily have proper kinds of
focus for the users along with the various kinds of task.
 Method inquiry can be easily stated as proper method is mainly inclusive of collection of
various kinds of methods from different users. It can be achieved from the analysis of the
provided task in such a way that they propose for it accomplishment and it can be
achieved or done on the desired goals for the university.

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 Method of prototyping is mainly associated with proper kind of refining and proper kind
of validating large number of users. In the last this method can be easily associated with
testing of different kinds of things.
Adaptability
A large number of steps can be used for increasing the adaptability of the provided network:
 First basic kinds of steps which is mainly associated or based on ability of large number
of networks. For proper kinds of network organization should have antennae which is
kept for tunes for adjusting with various kinds of sign.
 According to adaptability, the business process is much concerned about the level of
ability for the experiment. Various kinds of traditional approaches have considered to be
time-consuming and expensive in nature. It may saddle various kinds of organization
with unreasonable kinds of complexities. Apart from the research is totally based on
various kinds of consumers which is considered to be poor kind of predictor of success.
 It should consider the fact real world is considered to be much expensive in nature and
different kind of field marketing sets. So the business should have proper kinds of
strategies for managing and encouraging a large number of decision.
 Network should be designed in such a way that it can adapt to ability of control of multi-
company systems. Various kinds of experiments and detection of signal can be achieved
which will make the organization to have a proper idea. It should be kept into mind that
various kinds of adaptation should be local in nature. It is seen on a global platform and
various kinds of experiments must be there for succeeding various kinds of returns which
is mainly there for amplified, selection and communication.