Horizon Training Academy

Network Analysis and Desing

Course Name

Student No Full Name

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Presented By: Group ……

Background of the Project

Logical network design: -Horizon Training Academy

-Next 5 years

Three sites--Luton (Head Quarter)

-Manchester

-Glasgow

Aims and Objective:-99.9% redundant logical network!

-Fault tolerance (reliability), extensibility, security, isolation, usability and speed

Project Management

SDLC:-Bottom up Approach

-Prototyping

Deliverables:-Packet tracer simulation (Logical Design)

-Documentation (full report + ppt)

Exclusion: emulation of logical design

Team Work: everyone with equal participation

Infrastructure specification

Luton Site-3 Departments

Isolation

-4 labsCable oriented

Wireless

-3 serversWeb, Account, MLE

-DNS and DHCP

Glasgow and Manchester sites have same facilities as Luton.

Initial Analysis (Luton)

Total Static IP: 14 Lab: 8

Department: 6

Total Dynamic IP: 65 Lab: 44

Department: 21

Total IP requirement: 79 Lab: 52

Department: 27

Total Router: 2

Total Switches: 2

Initial Analysis (Luton) Con’t

Initial Analysis (Luton) Con’t

Design Tools

Two tools to exert the logical illustration of

HTA network

Microsoft Visio

-Visual representation

Packet Tracer

-Simulation

Packet tracer limitation

Inadequate facilitation capacities on

implementing-

HSRP or VRRP redundancy protocol

Standby option

Dual LAN cards

Stacking

VPN tunnelling

AFT features

Solution # 1

Figure: Network Solution#1 for HTA

Solution # 2

Figure: Network Solution#2 for HTA

Proposed Solution (#2)

Rationale:

HTA aimed for their network to support certain areas-

Key areas of interest to address-Availability

Redundancy

Security

Fault Tolerance

High Speed

Isolation

Easy Network Management- stacking Figure: Stacking

Issues (Redundancy)

The higher the rate of redundancies, the

higher the availability of network.

Three types of Redundancies

• Configure Network

• Configuration of HSRP

• AFT

Issues (Security)

IPSec VPNCompulsory tunnelling

Voluntary tunnelling

DMZProtecting MLE, Web and Accounts Server

Network Devices

Network Devices

Lesson Learned LogLesson Learned Log

# Attributed to What went well What went bad

1 Project Initiation Clear project definition Project initiation point identification

2 Analysis Project break down into three parts

Reduction on the complication of

analysis phase.

Analysing the given specification was well

challenging due to fuzzy description (i.e.,

“one dedicated computer for the instructor”

which actually referred to requirement of a

Static IP for that particular node)

3 Packet tracer Simulation was successful Deficiencies on installing many necessary

features (i.e., HSRP, stacking etc)

4 Documentation Most parts of the project are covered

and documented ably.

Vocabulary generalisation

References

[1] Available Online:

http://www.umsl.edu/~sauterv/analysis/prototyping/proto.html

[2] PPM lecture notes

[3] Available Online:

http://www.towson.edu/adminfinance/ots/training/documentation/visio/visio_basics.pdf [

[4] Available Online:

http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/netacad/course_catalog/docs/Cisco_PacketTracer_AAG.pdf