You are employed as a network consultant at Computer Systems and Networks Design Consultant.

An e$-$commerce business organisation is going through a major transformation because of its expansion. The expansion is due to merger of two smaller businesses to the organisation. Now, the organisation is moving to a new building having about $100$ employees. The new building is of three floors. The ground floor is for reception, foyer, and warehouse so there is a need of five data points at reception, four in warehouse and two in foyer. The $1$st floor consists of five offices and forty open plan office cubicles. The $2$nd floor consists of three rooms, each room have four office cubicles, two offices and thirty open plan cubicles. There is also a meeting room at $2$nd floor that requires four data points. Each person needs two data points at their desk whether it$$s an office, room cubicle or open plan cubicle.

TASK $1$ REPORT WRITING WITH DESIGN & PLANNING COMPUTER SYSTEMS & NETWORKS

$1.$Draw the current LAN network for the above case description.

$2.$Illustrate a new LAN or WAN topology diagram. This organisation needs a new LAN plan, design, and implementation before they move to new facility.

$3.$Write a report on a network plan and configurations having following sections:

$4.$Analyse the need for the network for above case study. Investigate and propose a suitable complete network design for the case study.

$5.$Create an appropriate framework and standards for the planned network. Write a detailed setup of network devices only for a LAN.

$-$For example, if each sales office has less than $20$ nodes but may grow to over $30,$ what switch would you recommend meeting the current requirements?

$-$If the headquarters segments have $30$ users each and will not grow to over $48$ nodes. Draw out the topology for a possible solution. Update the topology with Cisco products for this building WAN$/$LAN that uses switched ports and Fast Ethernet media.

$6.$Write a detailed implementation which includes configurations of each networking device which are included in the whole network.

a$)$Which category of network topology would you prose? Explain with reasons.

b$)$Which network criteria you will consider as important for the network and why?

c$)$Describe in which OSI Reference model the network device hub function and list functions of that OSI layer.

d$)$What type of network cable is proposed to be used to connect between Desktop and network device?

e$)$Identify and list the number of networking devices available in the topology diagram.

f$)$Have you proposed to use a Router device in your topology diagram, give the reason why you have or have not used a router.

g$)$Which class of IP address would you propose for the network? Propose an IP address plan for the network.

h$)$Identify & list of types of physical of topology that are used in the proposed network.

$7.$Demonstrate and compare at least $2$ configuration results which may include at least two switches$/$routers and two PCs on physical networking devices.