ITKnow Ltd$.$ has just opened up with the aim of offering IT related courses to its students,

competing with UTM. It aims to provide student labs, provide computers for its staff and also

host its own website. The organisation has subscribed to a $10$ Mbps global IP service and was

granted a block of public IP address $202\mathrm{.}123\mathrm{.}21\mathrm{.}120/29$ from its ISP.

It terms of infrastructure, the institute shall require the following:

$$ A server to host the institute$$s website and also a learning management system $($LMS$)$ on

which students can access course materials on campus and from home. Each of these

should be reachable on www$.$itknow.com and lms$.$itknow.com respectively. All staff should

have a personal email address under the institute domain @itknow.com.

$$ The institute wants to set up five computer labs, each containing $20$ PCs on static IP

addressing, each having restricted internet connectivity. Each computer lab is expected to be

on a separate VLAN.

$$ Additionally, each classroom should have $1$ PC on DHCP and shall be used by the lecturers.

These PCs require unrestricted internet connectivity.

$2$ PCs will be given to the system administrator in the Server Room for network and system

management purposes only. Also $3$ PCs will be made available for administration and

another $3$ for teaching assistants $($TAs$).$ Note: These $6$ PCs should be on static IP addresses

and should have internal network access $($website and LMS$)$ only.

$$ Finally, a wireless access solution should be made available to students over the campus

which can allow students internal access to the LMS and web server but with restricted

access to the internet. Staff shall have unrestricted access to the Internet. As a single Access

Point is unlikely to provide enough coverage and connectivity for all users, you will have to

decide how many APs you shall require. Additionally, there should be two wireless networks

within the campus : ITknow$\_$public for guests and students and ITknow$\_$private for staff.

Guests and students will authenticate via a WPA$2-$PSK password and staff will authenticate

via WPA$2-802\mathrm{.}1$X using a username and password on a RADIUS server.

Your task is to come up with an efficient, robust, scalable and secure network design that will be

suitable for this institute. The institute has allowed an capital budget of Rs$.4$ Million to procure

any goods or services that may be required, yet obviously does not want to spend more than

necessary.

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Deliverables

Build a report giving all the necessary network designs $($logical and physical network diagrams

should be provided that will allow any technician to build your network structure from scratch$).$

You are free to use any network case tool for the designs and this should be incorporated in your

report. You will also need to provide all the configuration information for all client, servers,

circuits and devices that you find pertinent in your solution as well as simulation of your solution.

Additionally, you will have to perform a cost$-$assessment and come up with a tentative budget for

your solution. Your solution should address any security issues. Best practices should be used

wherever possible. Policies might also need to be specified. You should also test and simulate your

solution using Packet Tracer.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Logical & Physical network diagrams $15\%$

Software, hardware & network requirements $20\%$

Network configuration of clients, servers & devices $15\%$

Cost assessment $15\%$

Report Format, Research & Referencing $5\%$

Design and Simulation $($Packet Tracer$)15\%$

Bonus $15\%$

Total $100\%$