In: Physics
There is an organisation called QX company that is now lunched in Oman. Currently, there are 120 employees distributed in three departments namely: Production and Supply, Sales, and HR. All servers are located in a separate room where connection to Omantel service provider can be found. The Department of Production and Supply is located next to the server room and has 80 computers. The Department of HR has 15 computers and located 250 meters away from the server room. Finally, the Department of Sales has 10 client computers and located 120 meters away from the server room.
Each and every person needs two data points at their desk whether it’s an office, room cubicle or open plan cubicle. The building needs also wireless connectivity. Furthermore, the manager requested that the traffic from the Department of Production and Supply should not interfere with those from the Sales and HR departments.
List the five steps required to be followed in network
planning steps. Furthermore, you are required to roughly write your
plan for the first two steps based on your understanding of the
course and the above description of the scenario.
Draw the basic horizontal cabling for the
company
Using Hierarchical Design Model, design the network
topology in Packet Tracer with the following requirements: [20
Marks]
Devices
Cabling (indicate cabling types using solid lines for
straight through and dotted lines for crossover)
IP Address, Subnet Mask and Default Gateways