NIT2222 LOCAL AREA NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES

Objective:

 By completing this assignment, students will be demonstrating their

knowledge and skills learnt from session 1-5 that include:

o IP address planning

o Local Area Network technologies

o Implement and configure Local Area Network of medium complexity in

Cisco Packet Tracer

Scenario

Victoria University Company has recently restructruing and needs to develop a new local area network to meet business requirements. You are hired by the company to design and build the network.

The initial phase involves design and development of a network for a number of building as shown in the below map.

 Building L hosts Sport and Health Departments

 Building M hosts Sport and Health Departments

 Building G hosts Business and Engineering Departments

 Building A hosts Human Resources and Business Departments

 Building K hosts main servers of all departments.

The network requirement of each department is detailed as follow:

After discussing with the company leaders and their technical staff, both sides have  agreed with the following technical requirements:

 Each department should be placed on a separate SUBNET for management.

 Departments located within the same building should use the same Layer-2

switches. VLAN must be used to separate traffics between departments.

 Layer-3 switches must be used for routing between VLANs of the internal

networks.

 The network should be designed with high performance and high availability requirements using Ether channel and First Hop Redundancy technologies.

 The company uses a single gateway router to access an outside router of ISP.

Network Address Translation should be used on the gateway router to hide IP

address of internal network.

 The network should be designed to optimize the cost i.e. you should try to use least numbers of network devices and links.

 The company was assigned the following IP address range to use for their

networks: 172.XY.0.0/16 (XY is the last 2 digits of your student ID)