Data Communication and Networking: Semester Projects for 5A/B
Project 1 – Hospital Network Design
A network proposal has to be designed for a hospital which has the following. There is a main block and three wards in the campus. The main block is the administrative block where registration of new patients takes place. The main block has 5 floors. The hospital has identified hospital management software, which should be accessible by the employees. The software is installed on a server at the administrative block. At the ground floor, there are 15 computers at the billing section. At other floors, there is one computer user each. The farthest distance between the computer on the top most floor and the ground floor is less than 70 meters. The wards have 5 floors each, with 10 computers in the gound floor of each ward. The distance between the wards and the blocks are less than 80 Meters. The computers in the wards may be increased based on future expansion plans.
Network requirements
1. Hardware requirement analysis in main block with quantity. 2. Hardware requirements analysis in wards.
3. The employees should receive dynamic IP addressing from a central server. 4. Network should be loop free at Layer 2
5. Every computer should be able to access the hotel management software from each of the location using a fixed IP address.
6. IP Network design table.
7. Identify configurations on the hardware wherever appropriate. 8. Network topology diagram with necessary equipment’s
Report Contents
1. Project Scope
2. Network requirements
3. Network requirement analysis (Main and wards) 4. Hardware analysis
Project 2 – Bank Network Design Proposal
A network proposal has to be developed for a bank. The bank has a main office , which is located in London, and has 5 branch offices located at Paris, California, India, Dubai and Qatar. The bank has an application server, which is used by it’s customers across the world for online transactions. All the branches have high speed internet connection. There are approximately 100 users in each of the branch offices and 200 users in the main office.
Network requirements.
1.Identify the hardware components required to setup the network for the Bank
2.High availability should be available to the application server, which is accessible using https protocol.
3.The application server should be setup in a secure manner with network and host level protection. 4.All traffic into the application server should be scanned for security attacks.
5.IP network design for the branch and main offices. 6.IP addressing range for users and hardware components.
7.The users at different locations should be able to access each other, including the application server.
8.Identify the features and methodology which would be followed to achieve the solution. 9.Network Topology diagram.
Report Contents
Abstract
Network requirements
Network requirement analysis
Hardware and software requirement analysis Additional requirements
Features and Services (VLAN, ACL, Static NAT, Failover cluster) Network Topology Diagram
Network Topology Diagram Explanation IP Network design
IP address design
Project 3 – Cloud Network Design Proposal
Design a cloud network proposal for a software development organization with 100 users.
Project Requirements
1.The organization should have a website setup on the cloud
2.All users should have email accounts under the organization name, setup on the cloud. 3.Data storage repository should be available for all the users on the cloud
4.An application server should be available, which would be a dedicated system on the cloud. 5.The organization should have a LAN with appropriate components like routers and switches. 6.Internet access for all LAN user
Report Contents
1. Table of Contents 2. Project Scope
3. Project Requirements
4. Project Requirement analysis and solutions 5. IP Network Design for LAN users
6. Network Topology Diagram 7. Product list and references
Project 4 – School Lab Network Design Proposal
The project designs a school computer lab with the necessary hardware and software components along with the IP address for different components. The computer lab consists of one IP network with 100 computers on one Domain. The files are shared using FTP server.
Servers are configured with Static IP address and clients have dynamic IP addresses received from a DHCP Server. Programming software like Java, C,C++ are installed on all the users PC’s. The softwares are also available on the FTP server, as a downloadable. Identify the necessary components like software , hardware and IP network schema to setup the network.
How to implement the project
Project 5 – Internet Cafe Network Design Proposal
The project is to prepare a network design proposal for an Internet cafe. The following are the requirements. The cafe is to support 30 users and requires a web filtering device or software to filter websites based on content.
The users need to share one ADSL internet connection. The cafe has to be managed with a billing software.
Report Contents
Network Design Requirement Design Requirement Analysis Network Diagram
IP address Design
Hardware and Software products.
Project 6 – Airport Network Design Proposal
The project is to design a proposal for setting up a network in an airport. The airport has three departments.
1. Airport authority 2. Flight service providers 3. Guests.
The airport authority maintains a server which handles the flight management controls. The flight service providers should have access only to the specific server in the airport authority network and not to any other systems. The guest users should have wireless access to a high speed internet connection, which should be shared among all the users in all the departments.
The wireless access should be using a common password. The guest users should not have access to the other two departments. The users should obtain IP addresses automatically. The airport authority has 20 users, the flight service providers have 40 users and the maximum numbers of guests are estimated to be 100.
Networking Requirement.
1.The active networking components (Routers, switches, wireless access points etc) with quantity. 2.The IP network design for each department.
3.Creating and mapping IP networks with vlans.
5.Dynamic IP addressing design for all the networks.
6.Identify the configuration and features, wherever appropriate, which is required on the active components to setup the network.
7.Network topology diagram.
Report Contents
1. Introduction
2. Networking Requirement 3. Network Design strategy 4. VLAN and IP Network Design
5. Requirement analysis of active networking components (Routers, switches, access points, DHCP Server)
6. Network implementation plan 7. Network Topology Diagram
8. Network Configuration and guidelines a. Switch configuration (VLAN, Trunking)
b. Router configuration (VLAN sub interface, Access lists) c. DHCP configuration (Scope creation with screen shot) d. Access point, server configuration guidelines.
9. Hardware inventory list.
Project 7 –
Small Business Network Design with Guest
Network
Project Scope
A small business network has to be designed for an organization. The organization has occasional guest users (Max 10) visiting the office. There are a total of 50 users in the organization. A FTP server is also available for sharing files.
Network requirement.
1.Separate subnet for guest and LAN network.
2.The guest network should be restricted to access only FTP service on the FTP server and all other access to the LAN network should be blocked.
3.IP Network Design
4.Identify the hardware – Switches and Routers. 5.Configuration details on hardware
1. Project Title 2. Project Scope
3. Network requirement 4. Network planning 5. IP Network design table
6. Network Topology diagram with IP addresses 7. Network Integration plan
8. Network configuration (Router interface and ACL configuration with explanation) 9. Network Testing and verification procedure
