Belmand College

Belmand College is a registered private higher education institution in South Africa. It specializes in training IT Diplomas and Professional Courses with its Campus located in Midrand, Midrand Campus has $3$ buildings which houses the different departments, lecture rooms and labs. Building A houses the IT Department, Library and Main Administration, the other buildings B and C houses lecture rooms and labs. The college has a total enrollment of about $2000$ students. They have over $100$ employees which includes admin employees, full$-$time lecturers and part time lecturers are hired every semester. They are currently using Moodle eLearning platform and an ERP system. They intent to adopt a hybrid cloud model where servers for ERP system, and Moodle servers are hosted on premise while the college website and emails are hosted in the cloud. The management of the college has embarked on an ambitious program to expand its footprint to other provinces and open two more campuses in Durban and Cape Town. Durban Campus will be running in a three Storey Building with the Admin, Library and IT support housed in Ground Floor, Lecture Rooms and Labs are in the First and second floor. Cape$-$ Town Campus building has two floors; the Admin, IT support and the library on the ground floor and lecture rooms are on the first floor.

Source: $($Maodza$,2024)$

You have been appointed as a Network Security Engineer Lead for Belmand to champion the design, development and implementation of a network and security infrastructure project that will provide very high$-$speed connection for all the three campuses securely$.$ Each of the new two campuses is expected to have at least $500$ students. You should focus on the following focus areas in your project as project deliverables.

Deliverable $2$

a$.$ Using Cisco Packet Tracer implement the network designed in deliverable $1$ above showing the network of Belmand College campuses connected together. The diagram should show how all the devices proposed in Deliverable $1.$

b$.$ Perform all the necessary configurations on all routers and switches enable connectivity for all the devices in the different campuses. NOTE that you will demonstrate the connectivity of the network during the presentation. All the appropriate protocols should be configured.