Question

Suppose that you are working as part of a team designing a network for XYZ high school. Consider that the school has six departments, Admin, Academic, Human Resource (HR), Finance, IT support and Sports.

1. Analyse the project hardware requirements along with the number of devices and cost.

2. Justify the approach you would be taking to design the network for the school.

3. Using the network simulator (such as packet tracer) design the network.

] 4. Illustrate the network configuration you have used

Answer 1

Apart from functional and non-functional requirement; the most important thing is hardware requirement. We have taken all the products of the cisco company and further made a table of requirements for this project. We have used various type of network devices which includes, routers, switches, printers and access points. Below table describes the description of all the products:

Device Name Model Quantity Remark Router Cisco

Router 819HG4G-IOX 2 4 Gigabit Ethernet 4 Fast ethernet 1 Serial port

Switches Cisco 2960-24TT 6 24 ports Printer Cisco

Printer-PT 8

Access Point Access Point-PT 8

Cables Copper Straight Through, Co-axial As per requirement