Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines

Trimester T1 2019
Unit Code BN202
Unit Title Internetworking Technologies
Assessment Individual submission and demonstration
Type
Assessment Assignment 2 - Network requirement analysis and plan
Title
Purpose of the Main objective of this assignment is to enable student to understand
assessment networking devices, gather requirements for a given business case study and
(with ULO plan a network design. After successful completion of this assignment, students
Mapping) should be able to:
d) Explain the current and future state of the internetworking infrastructure
and its applications.
e) Apply a process to support the administration and management of
internetworking.
Weight 20% of the total assessments
Total Marks 50
Word limit 1000
Due Date Week 11 (Tuesday 28st May, 2019, 5:00 pm), submit report on Moodle
Submission  All work must be submitted on Moodle by the due date along with a
Guidelines completed Assignment Cover Page.
 The assignment must be in MS Word format, 1.5 spacing, 11-pt Calibri
(Body) font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate
section headings.
 Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed
appropriately at the end in a reference list using IEEE referencing style.
Extension  If an extension of time to submit work is required, a Special Consideration
Application must be submitted directly on AMS. You must submit this
application three working days prior to the due date of the assignment.
Further information is available at:
http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies-
procedures-and-guidelines/specialconsiderationdeferment
Academic  Academic Misconduct is a serious offence. Depending on the seriousness of
Misconduct the case, penalties can vary from a written warning or zero marks to
exclusion from the course or rescinding the degree. Students should make
themselves familiar with the full policy and procedure available at:
http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies-
procedures-and-guidelines/Plagiarism-Academic-Misconduct-Policy-
Procedure. For further information, please refer to the Academic Integrity
Section in your Unit Description.

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Assignment 2 Description

Business case study: Network design proposal for a HiTech Telecommunications company

Description

HiTech Telecommunications1 is a reputed Telecommunications company that provides different

types of Telecommunications services, including service onsite. The company has three (3) major
branches in Australia in Canberra, Melbourne, and Brisbane with Headquarters (HQ) in Melbourne
to capture large number of customers in the area. In addition to providing Telecommunications
services in-store, they also have web-based ordering facility for national and international
customers. The orders can be paid for online by using major credit cards.
HiTech Telecommunications gets a significant portion of their orders through their on-line ordering
facilities. Web-based orders (online) get stored in their central file server(s), which is located in
Melbourne, but should be accessible from any branch using appropriate networking technologies.
The reliability of their file and web servers is of high importance. HiTech Telecommunications also
wants to make sure that the network downtime is very limited.
Furthermore, the servers need to be protected from malicious computer attacks and unauthorized
access. Facility to carry out audit checks needs to be provided as well to so as to keep track of the
exact activity along with the date and time at which an employee of HiTech Telecommunications
carried out a computer system based activity. The activity could include doing task(s) such as
installation of new software, changes in Webpage etc.
The web server is located in the Melbourne Headquarters (HQ) in the same location as the file
server(s), to host a homepage for the business. This server also acts as a chat server for providing
real-time chats by the customer service personnel with customers who wish to get some quick
queries answered before they order online. Each branch also has 8 networked printers and a fax
machine, as well as E-mail communication facility for staff use. Each of the branches of HiTech
Telecommunications also provides WLAN based service for customers to access the Internet while
visiting the store. A key issue is that the visitors should not have access to the resources of the staff
on the company’s internal network.
HiTech Telecommunications in each of their branches has 150 employees who have been provided
with laptops whilst the HQ in Melbourne has 200 employees. Each branch has 5 departments while
the HQ has 7 departments with networked PCs to form an internal network. Staff in all the

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branches and in HQ have access to the WLAN as well. There will be a need for separate VLANs
supporting the users. Some of the employees may telecommute from their homes over the
weekends. Each of the employees whether they are in company or telecommuting need to be
connected with a secure connection over a wired or a Wireless LAN connection, whichever may be
available. (You will need to demonstrate your assignment during laboratory class).

Write a report based on the above network requirements, use the following structure to
organise your report; and demonstrate switch and router configuration in week 11 laboratory
class.

Report Contents

 Project Scope
 Project requirements
 Network Design strategy
 Network Topology Diagram
- Switch configuration (VLAN, Trunking)
- Router configuration (VLAN sub interface, Access lists)
- DHCP configuration (Scope creation with screen shot)
- Access point, server configuration guidelines.
 Detailed Network Design in Netsim (You should not use packet tracer) which includes
- All switches
- All routers
- VLAN
- VTP
- All PCs
 Network device configurations
a. Switch configuration:
- Set IP addresses on PC and switch
- Create VLAN
- Ping each other
- Set VTP domain with your first name
- Set VTP password with your family name
- Demonstrate VTP packets

b. Router configuration
- set descriptions on interfaces, one with your name, second with your family name, third
with your middle name
- display information about directly connected devices to router
- Setup IP addresses for each interface.
- What is the subnet mask did you use?
- Ping all routers.

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Marking criteria:

Section to be included in Description of the section Marks

the report
Project Report a. Project Scope 5
b. Project requirements
c. Network Design strategy

Project hardware a. Name of the network device with manufacturer’s 5

requirements name, series, model and ports
b. Type of the cables
c. Name of the server, PC with specification such as
operating system, RAM, hard disk etc.

Network Design in a. Design the network using Netsim 5

Netsim b. Write justification of the network design

Network device a. Set IP addresses on PC and switch 10

configurations - b. Create VLAN
Switch configuration c. Ping each other
d. Set VTP domain with your first name
e. Set VTP password with your family name
f. Demonstrate VTP packets

Network device a. set descriptions on interfaces, one with your 10

configurations - name, second with your family name, third with
Router configuration your middle name
b. display information about directly connected
devices to router
c. Setup IP addresses for each interface.
d. What is the subnet mask did you use?
e. DHCP configuration (Scope creation with screen
shot)
f. Access point, server configuration guidelines.
g. Ping all routers.

Demonstration - Demonstrate switch and router configuration in 10

week 11 laboratory class

Reference style - Follow IEEE reference style 5

Total 50

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Marking Rubric for Assignment #2: Total Marks 50

Grade HD DI CR P Fail
Mark 40-50 35-39 30-34 25-29 <25
Excellent Very Good Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory
Project Report Concise and Topics are Generally Some relevance This is not
specific to the relevant and relevant and and briefly relevant to the
project soundly analysed. presented. assignment
analysed. topic.
Project Demonstrated Demonstrat Demonstrated Demonstrated Did not
hardware excellent ability to ed excellent ability to think ability to think demonstrate
requirements think critically and ability to critically and critically and did ability to think
sourced reference think sourced not source critically and
material critically but reference reference did not source
appropriately did not material material reference
source appropriately appropriately material
reference appropriately
material
appropriatel
y
Network Design Logic is clear and Consistency Mostly Adequate Argument is
in Netsim easy to follow with logical and consistent cohesion and confused and
strong arguments convincing logical and conviction disjointed
convincing
Network device All elements are Components Components Most Proposal lacks
configurations present and very present with present and components structure.
– Switch well integrated. good mostly well present
configuration cohesive integrated
Network device All elements are Components Components Most Proposal lacks
Configurations present and very present with present and components structure.
– Router well integrated. good mostly well present
configuration cohesive integrated
Demonstration Logic is clear and Consistency Mostly Adequate Argument is
easy to follow with logical and consistent cohesion and confused and
strong arguments convincing logical and conviction disjointed
convincing
IEEE Reference Clear styles with Clear Generally good Sometimes Lacks
style excellent source of referencing Referencing clear consistency
references. style style referencing with many
style errors

Reference:
1. http://hitechcomm.ca/

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