You are required to create a logical network diagram for the entire new network. This means that Sydney will be a branch office in your diagram and Tech Park will exist. This course does not have a pre-requisite that contains information on network design, as such, it is not expected of you to include any IP addressing in your logical network diagram. It is however expected that you include some aspects of network design, such as a two-tier or three-tier system and give reason as to why you chose one over the other

Fully Unreal Reality (FUR) is a growing enterprise in need of a new design for their network. FUR now specialises in virtual reality headsets and is an industry leader in this field. Along with this, FUR has branched out further into VR games, becoming an industry leader in using haptic feedback to imitate human touch in games. They have excelled in creating cheap, but high quality, virtual reality headsets and haptic suits for gaming consoles and PC gamers. FUR have decided to move their headquarters, opting for a more modern and liveable location: Mawson Lakes Technology Park (Tech Park). This has put them in the difficult position of needing a network built for their new headquarters and their branch offices to be upgraded. FUR’s previous head office in Sydney will become a branch office. Their Adelaide CBD branch office will move to Tech Park and will require significant upgrades to support the number of staff and devices. FUR currently has the following staffing requirements for each department:

FUR has a few servers at each company location: Web, File and Email. Servers should all have externally accessible IP addresses. Servers should be in a DMZ zone;this means that a server should not be able to ping/access internal devices unless the internal device initiates the connection. You are not required to provide any IP addressing for devices, simply referring to them by their name (“Sydney Concept Art PC”, “Melbourne Product Customer Support PC”) is sufficient. Certain teams should also not be able to contact other teams. A list of generalsecurity policies (not business policies, firewall policies) include:

• HR should not be accessible by any team.

• The entire Virtual Reality (VR) department should not be contactable from any other team.

o Teams inside the VR department should be able to contact each other.

• VR Game Design team should be accessible to only the Game Design team. o The Game Design team should still have access to everything else.

• All departments should have access to the Internet. Certain limitations apply:

o The VR department should have no access to Bandwidth Consuming, Potentially Liable, Security Risk, and Unrated web filter categories.

o The Art department should have no access to Social Networking.

o The entire company should have no access to: Adult/Mature Content, Security Risk categories.

o Social networking should be restricted to 30 minutes a day for every department except Art.

Virtual Reality is high-bandwidth capable and as a result, traffic from the Virtual Reality department to anywhere should be guaranteed 1000Mbps.

Your role in this is to be the network consultant, providing a new network design, equipment list, security policies and traffic flow diagrams. This new design should support the expected growth in 5 years, as shown above. You need to calculate the new headquarter staff numbers. Staff are not expected to be made redundant in the transition to Tech Park. You are free to base the Sydney branch office staffing levels off Adelaide/Melbourne’s current staffing levels.
 
 

Sydney (the current HQ) Department Human Resources & Finance Design and Development Art Virtual Reality Product Team Software Engineering Game Design VR Game Design Quality Assurance Research Concept Art 3D Modelling 3D Printing Research Innovate Prototype Custom Support Marketing Staff 25 53 11 15 5 2 5 13 14 41 33 12 120 22 Expected Growth in 5 Years Limited. At least 30%. At least 30%. At least 50%. Limited. Limited. At least 10%. At least 15%. At least 40%. At least 50%. At least 30%. At least 50%. At least 25%. At least 10%.