Computer Science Network Design and Analaysis
Computer Science Network Design and Management for a 300
Room Hotel with meeting rooms that support Video Conferencing Technology. Your
client is requesting a written analysis of your design explaining the
technology and why you think this design will work. It needs to be secure,
scalable, and cost effective.
Deadline January 17, 2014 - 6PM EST - Length 8 to 10 Pages
I will pay $75 for this assignment.
Course Project Using APA Style Guidelines, Design and
describe the LAN topology and strategies of a wireless and wired LAN for a 300
room hotel with 60 employee s providing customer service, video conference
services in the meeting rooms, Wireless service for guests, and an
administrative hotel network for the hotel staff. The hotel
staff utilizes Windows 7 desktop and laptop devices with MS Office 2010
products, utilizes email, network printers, Quickbooks for payroll and
invoicing, and hotel guest reservation tracking software. Ruckus wireless
equipment
will be used, HP or Cisco switching and routing equipment
will be used.
The fully completed Network Design Project includes a title
page (include your name, date, title of your plan), the Executive Summary and
the content outlined, plus any applicable tables, graphs or attachments.
Footnotes (or endnotes) and a Bibliography are required.
You must use no less than 6 verifiable resources .Cite all
sources. All references must be cited in two places: within the text and on a
reference list.
Key Objectives to address in paper:
1. Analyze Business Goals, technical goals, and network
constraints as you describe both the network design process and the factors
that require the goals and constraints to be a part of the network management
process.
2. Characterize the network traffic and network requirements
as you establish the performance criteria and constraints for a data network
and identify several potential solutions that yield an optimal network.
3. Utilizing the network topology, describe standards and
protocols used in the network architecture ( example VLAN s, switching, and
routing protocols ), understand major problems associated with network
management, and describe standard functions and strategies to manage these
problems.
4. Understand tools, equipment, and techniques required to
effectively monitor and manage the Campus network, its traffic type, and the
status of different devices on the network. Compare and contrast the major
management tools available for day-to-day network management.
5. Optimize and test the network design solution - identify
the optimal solution for a data network to satisfy a given set of performance
criteria and constraints for the support of a network carrying multimedia and
videoconferencing. Develop a design strategy that provides the high
bandwidth, high QOS, and low delay required for such
applications.
6. Given a network design, identify an optimal network
security strategy for the network design, including wireless networks.
COURSE PROJECT FORMAT
Utilize a Table of Contents
Include an Executive Summary
Outline your network design strategy, mission and goals.
Point out key success factors and/or major pitfalls you plan to avoid.
Reference major actions or changes you anticipate, and how these may impact your
strategy.
Include a good Mission Statement that meets the criteria of
the RFP or defined scenario. This should be a standalone paragraph that clearly
indicates the requirements and addresses how your plan will meet them, in
general terms. Ensure that you have clearly stated what your Network
Design Plan is designed to do, e.g., measureable goals by
which your design will solve the scenario or customer s requirements. Another
words - What do you plan to accomplish? An Executive Summary is a synopsis of
the critical information that is found in the other sections of the
document. Its purpose is to communicate to the reader this
is what you will be reading. Thus, you might include a brief paragraph for each
of the key sections.
Suggested length: 1-2 pages
Project Scope
Provide a complete description of the design project, and
identify the specific Network Design and Management issues. Spend time defining
and describing your project; a thorough understanding and clear articulation of
the project s scope is critical to the successful development of the rest
of your plan. The scope should describe the major
characteristics of the project, such as the business need & problem, the
deliverables, and the approach at a high level.
Present background/facts that will enable the client to
clearly understand the topic, and follow the rationale of your design. The
scope should help the reader envision the project and how you propose to
accomplish it.
Suggested length: 1-2 Pages
Project Goal
The project goal statement should be the driving force
behind the project. It should include the purpose or specific result expected
from the project and achieved through the project objectives and activities. It
should include the criteria against which everything done on the project is
measured. A good project goal statement is specific,
measureable and realistic.
The goal should state exactly what the project is to
accomplish at a high level. It should be phrased using action words (such as
"design," "build," "implement," etc.). It should
be limited to those essential elements of the project that communicate the
purpose of the project and the outcome
expected. In this section, explain the role the network
design will play in helping the organization succeed.
If you can't measure it, you can't manage it. The goal
statement is a measure for the project; if the goal is accomplished, the
project is a success. Watch out for using words that can be misinterpreted such
as; improve, increase, reduce (by how much?), customer satisfaction (who
decides if
they're satisfied and how?), etc
Your goal should discuss if the project is realistic. A
realistic project may push the skills and knowledge of the people working on it
but it shouldn't break them. The implementation plan of the project should
indicate the delivery timeframe and any training or additional knowledge needed
by
the organization. These topics should be lightly discussed
during the project goal.
Identify and clearly state the Network Design and Management
principles (including the Key Objectives listed above) that you will give
special focus and the issues in which will be addressed by the project.
Suggested length: 1-2 pages
Design Requirements
The project must describe your customer s requirements which
define what the project is ultimately supposed to do and how your design meets
those requirements. A requirement is an objective that must be met. This
section should provide instructions describing the functions the network
design is supposed to provide, the characteristics the
design will have, and the objectives it is supposed to meet or enable users to
meet.
Project requirements provide an obvious tool for evaluating
the quality of a project, because a final review should examine whether each
requirement has been met. The requirements should be defined towards the
quality of the end-user s experience. Including a subsection entitled
Assumptions under your design requirements would probably be
a good idea.
Suggested length: 1-3 pages
Current State of the Network
A significant section of the network design plan is
examining your customer s existing network. To better judge how to meet
expectations for network performance, scalability and reliability, this section
should describe the customer s current state of the network.
This section should concentrate on characterizing the
existing network. Understanding the current topology and locating the existing
network segments and equipment will be useful to verify your customer s or
project s goal, and will be useful when trying to determine the new equipment
that must be installed in the network.
In addition to understanding and documenting the topology,
this section should describe a baseline of the current performance. This will
be an important measurement to demonstrate that your new design improves
performance.
Suggested length: 1-3 pages
Logical and Physical Design
Develop a network topology based on knowledge gained about
traffic flow and load in the requirements section of this design plan. This
section should also discuss the network layer addressing and naming models, and
selects bridging, switching and routing protocols. Any security and
network management strategies should be covered in this
section.
Provide a detailed description of the rationale behind your
design. Be sure that the solutions you propose relate directly to the
requirements of the network as identified in the development process. Discuss
the concepts, ideas or insights that are most valuable in helping you make
sense of
your network design. Support your analysis with reference to
appropriate research. This section should tie together the requirements which
include the traffic flow and project goals to the physical design, in which
cabling, devices and technologies are added to the final network architecture.
Suggested length: 2-3 pages
Implementation Plan
Explore the solution(s) that could be appropriate to solve
the identified requirements of the network that arise during the network design
process. Be sure the solution(s) is/are logical based on your analysis and that
the solution(s) would effectively satisfy the identified requirements. Also,
discuss the anticipated outcomes (both positive and
negative) of implementing the network design solution(s) you identified.
Describe how the network as designed would be managed for optimal outcomes.
The implementation plan should include recommendations for
deploying the proposed network design, a project plan (including any dates and
times for service provider installations), discuss any plans for outsourcing,
training, identify risks, a fallback plan if the implementation should fail
and a plan for evolving the design as new requirements
arise.
Suggested length: 1-2 pages
Project Budget
Include in your plan, your project budget or projected
dollar costs for your first year of expenses. This should be based on your
having made a diligent effort to understand approximate expenses for designing
the network. The budget should include allocations for equipment purchases,
software licenses, maintenance and support agreement,
testing, training and staffing.
It is important that you research your costs. You should be
able to cite references that will allow you to share the actual costs for which
you will budget. Provide a realistic project budget that covers everything you
deem necessary to complete the project.
You should state who, within the company, has control of the
budget. And try to contain costs as much as possible. Chapter 2 of the book Top
Down Network design discusses typical trade-offs that must be made to meet the
goal of affordability while achieving good performance and
reliability. Discuss or incorporate some of these trade-offs
in determining the project s budget.
The data for this section can be provided in an excel
spreadsheet, but should contain an overall description of the items contained
in the budget.
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