Drop and Forge is a manufacturing firm having 200 employees with
a 120-computer network on its Toledo, Ohio, campus. The
company has
one very large manufacturing plant with an adjacent five-story
office building comprising 100 rooms. The office building houses
100 computers, with additional 20 computers in the plant. The
current network is old and needs to be replaced. The new network
will house a data center, the e-commerce edge and 12 printers. 10
printers will be installed in the different rooms of the office
building, while the other two are to be installed in the plant.
Employees will be allowed to bring their mobile devices (e.g.,
smart phones, tablets) to work and use them to access required
information such as their work email, required documents and
Internet. Note, there are no other campuses, so you can omit WAN
access.
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T1. Using the building-block network design process, develop a logical design of the new network for this enterprise campus that considers the seven network architecture components. Remember to consider the expected growth of the
company. For the logical design, you need to consider the following items: [25 marks] 1. Network architecture component 2. Application systems 3. Network users 4. Categorizing network needs 5. Deliverables T2. Design the physical design of the network based on the logical design completed in Task T1. Note, you do not need to develop any alternative design. For the physical design, you need to consider the following items: [25 marks] 1. Designing client and servers 2. Designing circuits 3. Network design tools 4. Deliverables T3. You will make some assumptions; therefore, document your assumptions and explain why you have designed the network in this way. [10 marks] T4. It is very important for you to explain to senior management that there will be significant business benefits derived from continuing to grow the network. Explain in detail what some of these will be. [10 marks]