Overview
Goal:
Analyze a case study and provide customers with a written report with a proposed network layout.
Overview:
This project will deal with one of topics displayed below. Assume that you are a network design consultant. You will analyze business requirements and technical requirements from a case study and propose a network design to satisfy the requirements. You may highlight why you choose certain network design and mention your concerns on computer network design or requirements.
Case 1. H&M Law Firm
Case 2. San Bernardo Dentistry
Procedures: (Refer to the lecture recording on Network design process in Canvas)
Choose a case you want to work on for the Project.
Read the Case document carefully to find out the business and technical requirements for computer network. Download the associated case study files.
Start your own analysis on the case by understanding tasks for network.
Select the type of network: centralized or not?
Select proper devices
Attempt to draw an initial network design on the provided case study diagram.
- Write a Case study analysis project report.
Report requirement:
- A case study report includes following items.
Overview – clear overview, focusing on key design ideas/points
- Business requirements / Technical requirements – may point out key issues/goals
Overall network design plan – consider following perspectives and propose your network design(decision) with rationale (supporting logic/evidence/data/cases/assumptions) and/or your concerns
- Network topology
Security perspectives
- A diagram of your proposed network layout - can use a diagram file uploaded in Canvas and add some devices with a legend.
Devices – may include computers, servers, printers, routers, switches, backup, cabling, access points, firewall, etc.
- Network address for each device, when needed
Cost quota plan (you will get an extra 1 credit)
- Report format requirements:
5-12 pages (excluding title page, table of contents, and references), 1” margins, double-spaced
12-point Times New Roman font
Title page
Table of contents
Appropriate headings and subheadings for each section
Page numbers centered at the bottom of each page