Design a network according to the requirements of the client

$2.$ Project Overview

You are an engineer of the sales support team of a Hong Kong$-$based IT services solution provider.

One of your duties is to design the computer networks for clients according to their requirements.

Your clients are non$-$governmental organizations $($NGOs$)$ and small and medium$-$sized enterprises

$($SMEs$)2$

$.$

$3.$ Driving Question$3$

As a network engineer, you are going to design the network for a client, who may be an NGO or

SME. To ease your work, you may propose who the client is and her requirements on the network.

$4.$ Target Users

$$ Client$$s representatives

$$ Salespersons of your company

$$ Installation technicians of your company

$5.$ Project Structure$4$

Each team should involve $2$ students$5$

participating in this PBL project. Students are recommended

to work with the following framework to design the network for the client corresponding to the

driving question:

$$ Who is the client? An NGO or an SME? What is the business$/$ industry$/$ service?

$$ List out the characteristics of network usage, including but are not limited to the number of

users $($both wired or wireless$),$ minimum network speed or acceptable latency, peak hour of use

$($if any$)$

$$ Select network equipment available on the market, datasheets are to be attached as

appendices, but they WOULD NOT BE COUNTED FOR MARKS

$$ Draw the network diagram of your design using Packet Tracer if appropriate

$$ Describe your design and highlight any salient points

Who is the client? An NGO or an SME? $(10\%)$

$$ What is the business$/$ industry$/$ service? $(20\%)$

$$ Characteristics of network usage, including but are not limited to the number of

users $($both wired or wireless$),$ minimum network speed or acceptable latency, peak

hour of use