Executive Summary

Asx University is a university that focuses on Engineering and IT related courses only.

This is a small-scale university which only focuses on certain area where only selected people will be admitted.

This is a project being done by all the giant IT Company and our main Stocks Holder is Intel. Their goal is to create a society of elites (engineers and IT related) which can be found from all around the world.

The University is yet to be build and all the plans for the university is currently being developed

In this report, we will design how the university will interconnect with each of the branch and the main building.

All the physical and logical topology is being design in this report to clear things up when implementing it in a real infrastructure.

Asx University will be using Star Topology which has a nested VLAN for the network environment.

The deployment of the network design is based on the building structure itself. The infrastructure of the campus is to fulfill the requirement which is being set by the stocks and share holders which is to create a building with a centralize network environment where all the data is being stored in one place which is the main building and the other external building or branch building stores nothing . This is to ensure maximum security and ease of access to the data.

This proposal is consistent with the University’s strategic plan and is a direct result of the initiatives outlined in it.

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1. IP Addressing

The major Network IP is 192.168.0.0/21.The Available IP addresses in major network have 2046 nodes. Number of IP addresses that needed is 780. Available IP addresses in allocated subnets are 1524. There is about 75% of available major network address space is used in this network and about 51% of sub netted network address space is used in this network. All details has been group in the Table 1.0.

School Needed size

Allocated Size

Main Address

Mask Dec Mask Range Broadcast

Main building

130 254 192.168.0.0 /24 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1- 192.168.0.254

192.168.0.255

Information Technology

130 254 192.168.1.0 /24 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1- 192.168.1.254

192.168.1.255

Electric & Electronic

130 254 192.168.2.0 /24 255.255.255.0 192.168.2.1- 192.168.2.254

192.168.2.255

Network & Security

130 254 192.168.3.0 /24 255.255.255.0 192.168.3.1-192.168.3.254

192.168.3.255

Multimedia 130 254 192.168.4.0 /24 255.255.255.0 192.168.4.1- 192.168.4.254

192.168.4.255

Mechanical 130 254 192.168.5.0 /24 255.255.255.0 192.168.5.1-192.168.5.254

192.168.5.255

Table 1.0

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2. Network Requirements

For cabling solution we propose 3 options:

Cabling using CAT7(Category 7) Cables

Cabling using CAT6(Category 6) Cables

Cabling using CAT5e(Category 5) Cables

Cabling Type Achievable speed Quantity

CAT5E 100MBPS

CAT6 1GBPS

CAT7 10GBPS

Table 2.0

For Routers:

Name Description Quantity

CISCO Router 2960-24TT

Only at the main building using high-end router. 1

CISCO Router 1841

Every school has 1 low-end router. 5

Table 3.0

For Switches:

Name Description Quantity

Cisco Switch Catalyzer

2960

Only at the main building using high-end switch. 1

Cisco Switch Catalyzer

2950

Every school using 1 low-end switch,

Main building also uses this switch for backup redundancy.

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Table 4.0

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3. Physical Topology Network Design

i. Overall Physical Topology

Figure 1.0

This is the overview of how the university network will look like. All the branches will be connected to the main building (the pentagon) and all the servers will be stored there in a server farm which located in the middle of the building (refer pentagon physical topology).

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ii. Physical topology : Main Building – The Pentagon

Figure 2.0

This is the physical topology for the pentagon itself, all the servers will be connected directly with cafeteria the building itself is being divided into 5 sections where all of them are divide equally. The IT department will consist of all the network equipment. As mention before, the servers will be stored in the server farm where it is located in the middle of the building.

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iii. Physical topology : Branch

Figure 3.0

This is how the branch/external building looks like. Only two floors in this building, where 2 labs and 2 lecture hall is being structured. For the lab, the connection is wired directly to the by using one of the option from the cabling requirements. For lecture halls, both of it only has wireless connection as shown above.

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4. Logical Topology Network Design

Figure 4.0

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5. Implementation of plan & cost proposal

Cables:

Name Quantity Price(one foot)-RM

Remark

CAT5E RM 1.80 *Total Price depends on how long it will use for the network

CAT6 RM 3.00

CAT 7 RM 5.30

Table 5.0

Router:

Name Quantity Price(one)-RM Price(Total)RM Remark

Cisco 2811 1 RM 5596 RM 5596 *Possible depends on the current price

Cisco 1841 5 RM 2070 RM 10,350

Table 6.0

Switch:

Name Quantity Price(one)-RM Price(Total)RM Remark

Cisco Switch 2960

1 RM 1690 RM 1690

Cisco Switch 2950

6 RM 463 RM 2778

Table 7.0

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