Sleep City: Network Infrastructure Design and Implementation Project

This project focuses on designing a network infrastructure for the Sleep City organization to address existing network problems. The project begins with an overview of the network setup challenges faced by Sleep City, such as the need for a cost-effective communication system, in-store email capabilities, and reliable remote access. It then details the proposed network components, including operating systems, servers, memory, routers, switches, and IP phones. The network infrastructure is designed using the Netsim simulator, creating a network topology with Cisco devices. The proposed design aims to provide an end-to-end IP infrastructure, improve network management, reduce downtime, and enhance customer satisfaction. The project highlights the benefits of the proposed infrastructure, such as streamlined operations, flexible communication, and scalability. It also acknowledges limitations, such as the need for Cisco devices and improved network security. The project concludes by emphasizing the high security, scalability, and flexibility of the network design. The project's references are also listed.

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Table of Contents
Project Outline......................................................................................................................................1
Network Setup Challenges....................................................................................................................2
Project Network Component................................................................................................................2
Proposed Network Infrastructure........................................................................................................2
Network Design Benefits......................................................................................................................5
Network Design Limitations.................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................5
References............................................................................................................................................6
Project Outline
Main objective of the project is to makes the network infrastructure. The Sleep city
organization has the various network problems and these are reduced by creating the network
infrastructure. The proposed network infrastructure is used to provide the effective infrastructure. It
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easily discovering the IP communications benefits to improve the streamline operations and
customer services. The Network infrastructure components will be analyze. The Network design
creation has the one or more challenges. The challenges, benefits and limitations are analyze.
Network Setup Challenges
The Proposed network setup having the one or more business challenges. They are,
 The sleep city requires to create the new communication system. The communication
system is easy to cost effective and deploy to scale the organization (Dai & Jordan, 2016).
 It interest to introduce the in-store email to improve the customer service and
communication.
 It easily accessing the sleep city server from the remote stores. Because the sleep city server
was unreliable and slow.
 It expanding the doubling and interstate and their presence of points.
Project Network Component
The Network components are listed below.
 Operating system - Windows 7
 Server - Cisco ACS Server
 Memory - 2 GB RAM
 Hard Drive - 2 GB
 Routers - Cisco 2600 Series routers.
 Switches - Cisco 3600 series switches
 IP Phones - Cisco’s 7960G IP phones
Proposed Network Infrastructure
The Sleep City proposed network infrastructure done by using Netsim simulator (Deal, n.d.).
First Open the Netsim simulator to create the network topology.
Add the devices the in network topology wizard. If want to add the routers by selecting the Cisco
2600 Series routers.
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It want to add the switch by selecting the Cisco 3600 series switches.
Also add the IP phone by selecting the Cisco’s 7960G IP phones.
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Finally the connecting the all the devices (Larson & Walker, n.d.). The proposed network
infrastructure is displayed below.
The proposed network infrastructure for sleep city is used to resolving the existing network
problems. It is used to provide the end to end IP infrastructure. It improve the existing network
simple and centralized management. It create the new communications system to reduce the user
down time. The End to end IP infrastructure is used to provide the scalable and effective network
infrastructure to deploy and configure the new users and locations in the sleep city solution. It
should be improve the customer satisfaction and provides the reliable access to maintain and handle
the network management. It increasing the network availability and flexibility.
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Network Design Benefits
Benefits for sleep city network Infrastructure are listed below.
 It easily discovering the IP communications to improve the streamline operations.
 It create the new end to end IP communication and it flexible for data and voice
communications.
 It enable the sleep city to doubling the points of presence.
 The proposed network infrastructure increasing the communication costs.
 It stores the inventory data services in sleep city server and provides the reliable access.
 It reducing the fax costs to improving the customer satisfaction and employee
responsiveness.
 It new communication system was managed by simple and centralized management to
reduce the user down time ("Network design checklist: How to design a LAN", 2017).
 It resolve the remote sites issues.
 It provides the scalable IP infrastructure and it gives the easy and simple deployment for
new users and locations.
 It supporting the sleep city growth (NETworking, 2013).
Network Design Limitations
The network infrastructure has the limitations such as,
 It should be create the new communications system to improve the customer satisfaction
and operations of streamlines.
 It must be using the cisco network devices.
 It should provide the reliable access for sleep city server.
 It must be improve the customer satisfaction and employee responsiveness to reducing the
fax.
 It should provide the network security for sleep city organization include video surveillance,
intranet and wireless warehouse management (Ryu, 2010).
Conclusion
The Sleep city organization existing network issues are resolved by creating the new network
infrastructure. The network infrastructure design was done by using Netsim simulator. The Network
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design provides the high security, scalability and flexibility. The network challenges, benefits and
limitations are analysed in detail. The Network infrastructure using the cisco network devices to
reduce the business costs. The Proposed network infrastructure is used to discovering the IP
communications to improve the customer satisfaction and operations of streamline.
References
Dai, W., & Jordan, S. (2016). ISP Service Tier Design. IEEE/ACM Transactions On Networking, 24(3),
1434-1447. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tnet.2015.2416319
Deal, R. CCNA Cisco certified network associate routing and switching.
Larson, R., & Walker, M. CCENT Cisco certified entry networking technician ICND1 study guide with
Boson NetSim limited edition.
Network design checklist: How to design a LAN. (2017). SearchITChannel. Retrieved 28 August 2017,
from http://searchitchannel.techtarget.com/feature/Network-design-checklist-Six-factors-to-
consider-when-designing-LANs
NETworking. (2013). [Hong Kong].
Ryu, S. (2010). More Networking? Or Successful Networking? Exploring a Better Networking
Measure. SSRN Electronic Journal. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1556397
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