Question

A university has 7 departments namely, IT, Finance, HR, Management, Faculty, students and R&D. The university also has an ADSL internet connection which is shared for the different departments. It is required that all the departments should have intercommunication via LAN. Each of the department contain 50-200 users.

As the case everywhere, the students and the staffs need to have access to Wi-Fi connectivity as well. The university campus contains 3 different buildings located nearby, having 2, 3 and 4 floors each. You are asked to design of a network infrastructure for a university, focusing on the following aspects.

 The network architecture model you will be choosing.

 The switching and routing requirement

 The IP Design schema for the department.

 Design with VLAN

 The security measures taken for both the wired and wireless network.

 The Wi-Fi design as required for the university.

The final network infrastructure may be created in packet tracer or any familiar tools available. You may create the model in a word file too, by indicating all the information clearly.

Answer 1

We, Will, place an ADSL modem and manageable switch in the IT department from there we will distribute all the connections. It required one manageable switch 6 normal switches. Seven controllable Wi-Fi routers. From the manageable switch we will distribute all the building's floors and department we will assign different class IPS.Eg for HR department 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255 for finance department 192.168.2.1 to 192.168.2.255. We have to configure all department's IP in all client for intercommunication. Also switches for each floor from there we can distribute to all the client Pcs. and Wi-Fi router on every floor for a better Wi-Fi range. For Wi-Fi security, I will suggest a controllable Wi-Fi router so we can monitor all the activities we have to install antivirus and firewall also so we can secure the lan too