Network Design Project

IP Internetworking Design Project

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Overview

Each student will create a detailed, unified technical design of network services given the scenario. The submission will be in a written format with a length of at least 1000 words (not counting diagrams, quoted passages, or other attachments) and with at least one detailed diagram created by the student. The assignment is meant for students to enhance their mastery of the material and to provide a creative and realistic way in which to apply knowledge from this course. 

Scenario

You are a consultant being brought in by XUMUC to assist with its campus expansion.

Project Description

XUMUC has WAN links in place at their new location in the Houston Region.  XUMUC currently has 2 other regional locations, in San Francisco and Denver.  Originally, XUMUC was only located in one region (San Francisco).  The previous consultant did a poor job with the integration, resulting in a poor IP address scheme.  As a result routing tables at the summarization points at the San Francisco campus are very large.

In addition, no VLAN structure was developed to isolate broadcast traffic. Also, there has been some concern that the WAN transport was not able to accommodate the network traffic.

Finally, all addresses in the network are statically assigned resulting in high administrative overhead, even when minor changes are implemented. For the next expansion phase, XUMUC would like this changed to lower administrative overhead.  There are 4 main departments in XUMUC: sales, finance, human resources, and research and development.

For assigning IP addresses you can pick any one from the following network addresses.

172.16.0.0/16

172.17.0.0/16

172.18.0.0/16

172.19.0.0/16

172.20.0.0/16

10.10.0.0/16

10.5.0.0/16

10.6.0.0/16

10.7.0.0/16

10.8.0.0/16

 IP ADDRESSING TABLE

Your paper should address the following XUMUC Network Issues.

• Create VLAN, as appropriate, to minimize and Isolate broadcast traffic.
• Reduce WAN Traffic
• Develop a new IP scheme summarizing at points shown in the diagram

XMUMC Network Diagram

Deliverables

Provide a document that addresses all issues described above. 

The document complies to APA style and should contain:

• Cover page
• Index Page
• Main Body (3 to 5 Pages)
• Executive summary
• Conclusion
• Reference Page

Technical details in Main Body (including any assumptions)

• Provide details that address all issues described above
• Complete IP addressing table (including summarized routes for the Denver and Houston regions),
• Update network diagram with summarization address at each router and link addresses.

Questions about the Project

If there are any questions about the project assignment, consider posting them publicly in the conference area so questions and responses can be shared with the class. If a question is private or could reveal your work, then e-mail/private messages the instructor.