COVID 19 has forced many companiesto redesign a cost-effective network to address the new online requirements. You are a graduate Network Engineer with a company in Australia. As a part of the design task force, you are required prepare a network design proposal. Consider the company has six departments: Customer Service, Engineering, IT, HR, Sales and Operations. The company requires to have a seamless communication with all the departments. Consider that there are not more than 15 host in each of the department.

Question

Project hardware and software requirements

Name of the network devices with the manufacturer's name, series, model and ports

Number and type of devices to be used

Type of the media used e.g., types of cables

Name of the server, PC with specification such as operating system, RAM, hard disk etc.

3. Approach for the design

Discuss in clear terms the approach that you are taking for designing the network. You may use bullet points whenever necessary.