You work as a network consultant for West Consulting, a graphic design and printing company. West Consulting is growing in customer and sales volume and, there
You work as a network consultant for West Consulting, a graphic design and printing company. West Consulting is growing in customer and sales volume and, therefore, is expanding its local campus in Des Moines IA, and adding a test location in Australia.
You are tasked with designing a network to support their growth and expansion plan and drafting a proposal. You will work on this project over the next five weeks. The first task is to confirm your understanding of the project and outline your high-level plan to approach the design.
Refer to the West Consulting Network Design Summary document, which lists the network requirements and configuration details.
Create a Customer Design Summary that includes the following:
- Project Summary
- A description of the organization, the business environment, and the project purpose
- Design Requirements
- Desired functional network requirements, any technical constraints, and network performance or design goals
- Existing High-Level Network Infrastructure Survey
- Include both a logical topology diagram (layer 3) and a physical network diagram of current infrastructure and routing.
- Implementation Plan
- Description of a high-level network upgrade plan based on Cisco's network design lifecycle principles and an explanation of how your plan addresses West Consulting's goals and strategies
Diagram your current network survey in Microsoft® Visio®.
Document the remainder of your Customer Design Summary as a 2- to 3-page Microsoft® Word document
Note: You will complete assignments related to this project throughout this course. The assignments build on one another. Therefore, it is recommended that you select the delivery method of a Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation or a Microsoft® Word document to use throughout these assignments. Also, you will use this completed assignment as you work on next week's assignment.
Submit your assignment a DOC/DOCX word document and a separate diagram in VSD/VSDX format. Microsoft Visio file.
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West Consulting Network Design Summary
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West Consulting Network Design Summary
West Consulting Business Description
West Consulting is a graphic design and printing company. It is growing in consumer and sales volume and therefore, is expanding its local campus in Des Moines, IA, and adding a test location in Australia.
Business Problem
As a graphics design and printing company, West Consulting runs bandwidth-intensive applications from servers housed at their headquarters in Des Moines, IA. IT leadership has determined that the current network continuously runs in a degraded state and users experience heavy latency when accessing the servers that house their customer Computer Aided Design (CAD) software.
Because of increased sales of their CAD designs, they need to expand their facilities. The company headquarters currently has 1,000 unique users among its two buildings and has decided to add another building and 500 users. The new buildings will be located on the same campus as the other two buildings, located 750 feet from away from both. Building 3 will have 3 floors, with 200 employees on each of the first 2 floors and 100 employees and the new Data Center on the third floor.
In addition, leadership has decided to expand into Australia to enable them to test their designs in a new and growing market. The footprint in Australia will be relatively small with approximately 30 people.
Solution
You are a network consultant for West Consulting. You are tasked with proposing an improved network design to support their growth and expansion plans.
Requirements
1. A secure WLAN solution in the new building for half of the users and recommendations to upgrade their existing WLAN infrastructure to keep wiring costs down.
2. Recommendations on a Unified Communications system that meets traffic demands, with minimal interruptions, due to the frequency of international videoconferencing calls that will occur.
3. An IP solution that can accommodate the new users in all locations. Must convert to use Private IP address internally for all networks. Segment out employee, guest, and infrastructure devices onto separate networks.
4. Recommendations to upgrade their switch bandwidth to 10GB fiber uplinks between backbone switches, a 10GB connection to each of the servers, and add-in options for redundancy. High availability access to these critical servers is a must because of the expected traffic increase and load on the servers.
5. Upgrade and remove all End of Life or End of Support equipment.
6. Proposal for an on premise data center solution in the new building (building 3) that takes advantage of both network and server virtualization technologies to reduce their costs in acquiring and maintaining hardware.
7. Improvements to the link speed to the internet, and redundancy of a second ISP connection at new building.
8. Options for implementing greater security for their intranet servers that their partners and employees heavily use and for their overall network infrastructure, as they have had attacks on their DMZ.
9. Have proof that these improvements will be completed within a 6 to 9 month timeline.
Network Configuration Details
The network engineer verbally shared the configuration details of their network, as follows:
Headquarters:
· Bldg. 1 and Bldg. 2 are located about 500 ft. apart.
Switches:
· Bldg. 1 has one 6500 backbone switch installed, which supports users from both buildings.
· Bldg. 2 has a connection to the backbone switch via a 10GB fiber connection (10G Base LR) from uplink port on a Cisco 3850.
· To support the users, each floor contains three Cisco Catalyst 2950 48-port 100Mbps Ethernet switches, which are each cabled to the backbone switch via a 1GB uplink port.
Routers:
· Each floor represents a different subnet and therefore one Cisco router 2610, configured with EIGRP, is cabled to backbone switch (1GB connection) to provide routing for each subnet and provides a WAN interface to the internet via a T-1 link.
· Each switch also has a link to an access point that uses WPA encryption and 802.11b wireless standard to support users who are in conference/meeting rooms that want to connect to the internet.
Servers:
· 5 Windows® Server 2012 R2 (RAID 5) application servers that support the CAD.
· 1 DHCP
· 1 DNS
· 1 FTP server
IP Configuration (DHCP-based)
|
Building |
Floor |
Servers |
Employees |
IP Network |
|
1 |
1 |
3 CAD 1 DHCP 1DNS 1FTP |
100 |
194.100.1.0/24 |
|
2 |
100 |
194.100.2.0/24 |
||
|
3 |
100 |
194.100.3.0/24 |
||
|
4 |
100 |
194.100.4.0/24 |
||
|
5 |
100 |
194.100.5.0/24 |
||
|
2 |
1 |
2 CAD |
100 |
195.100.1.0/24 |
|
2 |
100 |
195.100.2.0/24 |
||
|
3 |
100 |
195.100.3.0/24 |
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|
4 |
100 |
195.100.4.0/24 |
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|
5 |
100 |
195.100.5.0/24 |
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