Description

NETW206 Course Project

For this project, you will be working in a team to redesign a campus area network for an

enterprise customer. You will be completing an assessment of the business goals, a design of a

new network to meet these goals, developing a new IP addressing scheme, and documenting

network topology with Visio. The complete project outline is found in this document.

At the beginning of class, the instructor will post the teams that will be made up of three or four

individuals (numbers may vary in some cases) that will form the basis of working on the

projects. There are several resources for working with teams outlined on the Course Project page

in the course shell. Your team will have discussion forums available each week and real-time

chat/meeting forums available in the course shell.

A team contract will need to be completed and uploaded to your professor in Week 1. It will not

be graded, but it has to be completed by each team member and uploaded into the Dropbox. The

Peer Review will need to be uploaded to the Dropbox in Week 4 by each team member. The

Week 4 Project Status report will need to be uploaded to the Dropbox in Week 4 by one team

member. The final Course Project and peer reviews are due in Week 7. Each team member will

upload to the Dropbox an end-of-project Peer Review in Week 7.

Objectives

In this Course Project activity, you will demonstrate your ability to work as a team to design a

network upgrade to a current network based on the scenario outlined below. Your team will

document and justify your design, select and justify equipment selection, create an IP address

table, and create a Visio network diagram.

Scenario

You are a network engineer for a medium-sized enterprise business with a campus area network

in place using EIGRP. The network consists of four buildings, each with LANs, which are

connected individually to the company headquarters building. The main IT communications

room is located in the headquarters building and includes most shared resources and the

connection to the ISP through a dedicated ISP router. Currently, the company is using LAN

technology to connect all the end systems within each building and WAN technology to connect

the buildings to the headquarters site.

Your team has been asked to design a proposal for a new network. Your team has been asked to

consider IPV6 for deployment now or in the future. Your team has identified the business goals

of the project and is in the process of outlining the technical goals and constraints needed for the

new network, designing the new network topology, and selecting the new equipment. Part of the

technical goals will be to justify your IGP protocol decision (for example: stay with EIGRP or

migrate to OSPF), select all of the new LAN and WAN equipment, create a bill of materials for

your network, and create a Visio diagram of the CAN and each building. You will also devise a

basic security proposal for your network. The current network does make use of VLANs, STP,

and other network traffic options on the current LAN switches. Even with all of this in place, the

company has experienced bottlenecks. Your team would like to try and use EtherChannel as an

option for, at least, part of the network to see if it will lessen traffic congestion between your

access and distribution layer switches. In addition, the documentation at the access layer is

nonexistent and will have to be built. Your team will also need to create an IP addressing system.

Required Resources

 Visio software (this can be accessed via Citrix or downloaded from the student software

store if necessary.)

 Microsoft Word

 Internet research