Data Communication and Networking

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ASSESSMENT DESCRIPTION:
CODEC Institute’s Network Description
CODEC Institute is a higher education provider in Melbourne. CODEC is located in three-level office building for
their employees work each day. There are no remote users. While they have a computer network and are
connected to the Internet. All of their computers are desktop machines and are connected with wired Ethernet
connections. All of the network wiring is CAT-6 twisted pair wiring that goes from the office location to a wiring
cabinet. There is one wiring cabinet on each floor. Each cabinet is connected to the basement wiring cabinet via
fiber.
There are several departments of the institute. The administrative office has 12 employees including
the Campus Director, Associate Dean, a human resources manager, and several assistants and secretaries. The
accounts office has 10 employees. Both of these divisions are on the third floor.
The second floor has the Marketing department. There are a total of 15 employees in the Marketing Department
and includes Marketing executives and assistants. All of the marketing department personnel have laptop
computers, but they are still connected via the wired network.
The first floor has the academic department, classes/training rooms and the receptionist. The receptionist shares
a computer with the administrative office. There are 24 people in academic department, they use 24 computers
to enter their academic records into the institute’s current system. There is also a conference room/training room
on the first floor with a multimedia system that includes a podium computer, projector and all of the bells and
whistles. The basement houses the information technology and maintenance department and the mail room. The
mail room clerk uses one computer. The two maintenance workers have computers at their desks that they use
to enter reports of work performed. The IT Department has eight employees, each with a desktop computer.
CODEC has planned to invest in their network Infrastructure and host their own web server and database server
and also decided to have internet connection with different ISP and load balance their Internet traffic and if one
ISP goes down other ISP should automatically take all the Internet traffic without any downtime.
Also CODEC wants to implement a ICT Network Monitoring solution which provide in depth knowledge and logs
and traffic flow of their network. Additionally, VoIP as well as videoconferencing services when staffs are not able
to physically attend the meetings. CODEC wants to manage its own server farm, which includes two domain
controllers, one print server, one mail server, one database server, one internal web server, one external web
server (having the firewall), a file server, a special server for the ERP system, and a backup server.
Now, your roles as Network Administrator to propose a network design suit for their needs.
Requirements to add Wireless Network Access Points (WAP)

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Assessment Task:
You are required to design the physical design of the network while considering the logical design of the network.
In order to develop your physical design, you may need to make reasonable assumptions. You also have to
complete your final network design report.
Your report should include the following:
1. Executive Summary
2. Table of Contents
3. Project Goal
4. Project Scope
5. Design requirements
a. Business Goals and Constraints
b. Technical Goals and Tradeoffs
c. User Communities and Network Applications
d. List of Assumptions
6. Logical Network Design
a. The logical network diagrams including addressing and naming
b. The explanation and justification of your logical design
c. The list of routing and switching protocols, and security mechanisms
7. Physical Network Design
a. The final network diagram
b. The table of networking & communication devices and applications required,
including the cost of each of them, the IP addresses, the product numbers as well as
the approximate total cost
c. The explanation and justification for the selection of the devices and applications
required.
d. Write a test plan that can be used to test the new network.
e. Write one detailed test script for your test plan.
8. Prepare the user, business and security requirements of the organisation in relation to network design.
9. Analyse the user, business and security requirements.
10. Compare and contrast the possible alternative logical and physical network designs.
11. Design a network by applying the top-down network design methodology.
12. Create the final documentation of the designed network.
13. Justify that the designed network satisfies the requirements.
*. You should create the network design report in word document with a limit of 2000 words.
The report must follow Harvard citation and referencing guidelines.
ASSESSMENT SUBMISSION:
This report is to be submitted online in Moodle. Only Microsoft Word format will be accepted.
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MARKING GUIDE:

GENERAL NOTES FOR ASSESSMENT TASKS
Content for Assessment Task papers should incorporate a formal introduction, main points and conclusion.
Appropriate academic writing and referencing are inevitable academic skills that you must develop and
demonstrate in work being presented for assessment. The content of high quality work presented by a student
must be fully referenced within-text citations and a Reference List at the end. Kent strongly recommends you
refer to the Academic Learning Support Workshop materials available on the Kent Learning Management System
(Moodle). For details please click the link http://moodle.kent.edu.au/kentmoodle/mod/folder/view.php?id=3606
and download the file titled “Harvard Referencing Workbook”. This Moodle Site is the location for Workbooks
and information that are presented to Kent Students in the ALS Workshops conducted at the beginning of each
Trimester.
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Kent recommends a minimum of FIVE (5) references in work being presented for assessment. Unless otherwise
specifically instructed by your Lecturer or as detailed in the Unit Outline for the specific Assessment Task, any
paper with less than five (5) references may be deemed not meeting a satisfactory standard and possibly be failed.
Content in Assessment tasks that includes sources that are not properly referenced according to the “Harvard
Referencing Workbook” will be penalised.
Marks will be deducted for failure to adhere to the word count if this is specifically stated for the Assessment Task
in the Unit Outline. As a general rule there is an allowable discretionary variance to the word count in that it is
generally accepted that a student may go over or under by 10% than the stated length.
GENERAL NOTES FOR REFERENCING
References are assessed for their quality. Students should draw on quality academic sources, such as books,
chapters from edited books, journals etc. The textbook for the Unit of study can be used as a reference, but not
the Lecturer Notes. The Assessor will want to see evidence that a student is capable of conducting their own
research. Also, in order to help Assessors determine a student’s understanding of the work they cite, all in-text
references (not just direct quotes) must include the specific page number(s) if shown in the original. Before
preparing your Assessment Task or own contribution, please review this ‘YouTube’ video (Avoiding Plagiarism
through Referencing) by clicking on the following link: link:
http://moodle.kent.edu.au/kentmoodle/mod/folder/view.php?id=3606
A search for peer-reviewed journal articles may also assist students. These type of journal articles can be located
in the online journal databases and can be accessed from the Kent Library homepage. Wikipedia, online
dictionaries and online encyclopaedias are acceptable as a starting point to gain knowledge about a topic, but
should not be over-used – these should constitute no more than 10% of your total list of references/sources.
Additional information and literature can be used where these are produced by legitimate sources, such as
government departments, research institutes such as the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC),
or international organisations such as the World Health Organisation (WHO). Legitimate organisations and
government departments produce peer reviewed reports and articles and are therefore very useful and mostly
very current. The content of the following link explains why it is not acceptable to use non-peer reviewed websites
(Why can’t I just Google?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N39mnu1Pkgw (thank you to La Trobe University
for access to this video).