Description
NETW206 Course Project
For this project, you will be working in a team to redesign a campus area network for an
enterprise customer. You will be completing an assessment of the business goals, a design of a
new network to meet these goals, developing a new IP addressing scheme, and documenting
network topology with Visio. The complete project outline is found in this document.
At the beginning of class, the instructor will post the teams that will be made up of three or four
individuals (numbers may vary in some cases) that will form the basis of working on the
projects. There are several resources for working with teams outlined on the Course Project page
in the course shell. Your team will have discussion forums available each week and real-time
chat/meeting forums available in the course shell.
A team contract will need to be completed and uploaded to your professor in Week 1. It will not
be graded, but it has to be completed by each team member and uploaded into the Dropbox. The
Peer Review will need to be uploaded to the Dropbox in Week 4 by each team member. The
Week 4 Project Status report will need to be uploaded to the Dropbox in Week 4 by one team
member. The final Course Project and peer reviews are due in Week 7. Each team member will
upload to the Dropbox an end-of-project Peer Review in Week 7.
Objectives
In this Course Project activity, you will demonstrate your ability to work as a team to design a
network upgrade to a current network based on the scenario outlined below. Your team will
document and justify your design, select and justify equipment selection, create an IP address
table, and create a Visio network diagram.
Scenario
You are a network engineer for a medium-sized enterprise business with a campus area network
in place using EIGRP. The network consists of four buildings, each with LANs, which are
connected individually to the company headquarters building. The main IT communications
room is located in the headquarters building and includes most shared resources and the
connection to the ISP through a dedicated ISP router. Currently, the company is using LAN
technology to connect all the end systems within each building and WAN technology to connect
the buildings to the headquarters site.
Your team has been asked to design a proposal for a new network. Your team has been asked to
consider IPV6 for deployment now or in the future. Your team has identified the business goals
of the project and is in the process of outlining the technical goals and constraints needed for the
new network, designing the new network topology, and selecting the new equipment. Part of the
technical goals will be to justify your IGP protocol decision (for example: stay with EIGRP or
migrate to OSPF), select all of the new LAN and WAN equipment, create a bill of materials for
your network, and create a Visio diagram of the CAN and each building. You will also devise a
basic security proposal for your network. The current network does make use of VLANs, STP,
and other network traffic options on the current LAN switches. Even with all of this in place, the
company has experienced bottlenecks. Your team would like to try and use EtherChannel as an
option for, at least, part of the network to see if it will lessen traffic congestion between your
access and distribution layer switches. In addition, the documentation at the access layer is
nonexistent and will have to be built. Your team will also need to create an IP addressing system.
Required Resources
Visio software (this can be accessed via Citrix or downloaded from the student software
store if necessary.)
Microsoft Word
Internet research