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Course Project—Part 1The course project assignment is a comprehensive assignment. Each week, you will be completing one part of this assignment based on the content covered in the week to design a network.Network design is a skill of the telecommunications professional. It is the science of examining the entire telecommunications project from an end-user perspective. It focuses on network requirements, the components and equipment that support these requirements, and the process of designing the network architecture to interconnect the components and equipment.The network design process is used by any organization that requires a new network or needs to upgrade an existing network. Network design considerations include the size of the network, traffic flows, and required capabilities. Network design also includes knowledge of current technology trends and vendor selection. The resulting network design must meet all the needs of the organization. The network design should be technically sound, cost effective, reasonably upgradable, and capable of growth.For this network design assignment, you are free to come up with a fictional midsized company engaged in a dot-com business for which you will select the business focus. The company can be a service-oriented or information-provider enterprise. You should note that the company is a start-up and sells no physical products but the company is positioned to manage any type of e-commerce operation online and through its office-based and mobile workforce.Assume that you are a telecommunications professional hired by this company to design its telecommunications network, serving all management and operations activities. The company has its offices in five different cities across the United States, with its main office in a major city. The company has around 250 employees, which include executives, managers, support staff, salespeople, and technical staff. As the company is new, the size of the client base is small but the company is expected to grow steadily in the foreseeable future. All clients are corporate clients.Each office has a general manager, office and department managers, and support staff. All executives as well as the technical staff are located in the main office and all the salespeople are mobile. The telecommunications system must support interoffice communications across all locations and with the mobile salespeople. The executives must be able to communicate securely with the general managers, and the general managers must be able to communicate with the office and department managers on a regular basis to get both voice and data information about clients.In addition, the salespeople must be able to communicate with clients and the main office via voice, e-mail, and two-way videoconferencing. The clients must be able to communicate directly with the general managers and executives in the same way. All communications must be kept secure and then archived as part of the organizational knowledge base of the company that will be used to support decisions across the current enterprise and as the company grows and expands to more locations.You need to prepare a comprehensive network design proposal for the company. The network design proposal should address all the perceived telecommunications requirements. In addition, the network design should also address any additional telecommunications requirements that you may identify in the process of describing your chosen company and explaining its business and operations. You are required to prepare a formal proposal and a customer-briefing presentation.Each week, you will be required to present a deliverable in the designated Project Area. Every network design project that you get involved with as telecommunications professionals brings together all the knowledge and experience that you acquire from academic work and the telecommunications business practice. You build on your previous experience in network design and your refined knowledge in current state-of-the-art telecommunications. For this assignment, you will incrementally add to your knowledge and understanding of telecommunications by applying it to your assignment as it progresses through the course.The weekly breakdown of the course project is as follows:WeeksDeliverablesWeek 1In Week 1, you will start your network design assignment by describing your customer and the customer’s network requirements.Week 2In Week 2, you will examine the role of the OSI model in network design.Week 3In Week 3, you will focus on TCP/IP services in network design.Week 4In Week 4, you will focus on network security based on your network topology and logical network design. You will also consider physical security, information security, and appropriate security technologies.Week 5In Week 5, you will add specifications for the wireless component of your wireless network system to support mobility of the salespeople. You are required to identify the need for adding bandwidth on the WAN or LAN.Week 1 TasksIn this week’s assignment, you will start your assignment by describing your customer and the network requirements of your customer. You may refine the customer’s network requirements through the rest of the weekly deliverables.In addition, you also need to complete the following tasks:Create a scenario for a fictional midsized company.Work on your proposed technical solution by describing the network topology required to address all the requirements of the scenario.Prepare a table in which you identify the vendor equipment, cost, and other charges, keeping in mind that your design should provide a cost-effective solution. Compare various vendors’ costs and other charges.Finally, create a network topology diagram.Note: Click here for a website that allows you to choose a tool to create a network topology diagram.Compile your answers to both parts of this assignment in a 4- to 5-page Microsoft Word document.Submission Details:Support your responses with examples.Cite any sources in APA format.Online TestOut Simulator Hand-on Lab 1 – Name your document SU_ITS3103_Lab_Results_LastName_FirstInitalPart 1 of the course prjoect – Name your document SU_ITS3103_W1_Project_LastName_FirstInitial.Course Project—Part 2In this part of W2 Project, you will examine the role of the OSI model in network design.The OSI model is not a network architecture, and it does not constitute network specifications. The OSI model serves as a guideline for network design and helps in representing how a network functions.Continuing with the course project you started in Week 1, on the basis of your research and reading in this week, complete the following tasks:Map the layers of the OSI model to the actual processes required for your scenario as identified in W1 Project. Use the OSI model as your network design reference.Based on the updates to your network design, update the vendor and costs table that you created in W1 Project.Finally, add a network process diagram to your proposal.Note: You may want to try a different drawing tool for that purpose. Click here to try one such tool.Compile your answers to both parts of this assignment in a 4- to 5-page Microsoft Word document.Submission Details:Support your responses with examples.Cite any sources in APA format.Online TestOut Simulator Hands-on Lab 2 – Name your document SU_ITS3103_Lab_Results_LastName_FirstInitalPart 2 of the course project – Name your document SU_ITS3103_W2_Project_LastName_FirstInitial.Course Project—Part 3In this part of W3 Project, you will focus on TCP/IP services in network design.Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research TCP/IP services.Based on your research and in continuing with the course project assignment components from Week 1 and Week 2, complete the following tasks:Create a logical network design that includes:Traffic patterns generated by your designServers to handle workloadAccess to the networkFirewall requirementsServices provided—e-mail, user groups, network browser, and dial-in or virtual private network (VPN) access through the Internet.Based on the updates to your network design, update the vendor and costs table that you updated in W2 Project.Add a logical network design diagram for your network design.Note: You may want to try a different drawing tool for that purpose. Click here for one such tool.Compile your answers to both parts of this assignment in a 6- to 7-page Microsoft Word document.Additionally, include a description of how the knowledge or experience gained from the Network+ Simulator of Weeks 1, 2, and 3 has helped you in completing the first three parts of the course project.Submission Details:Support your responses with examples.Cite any sources in APA format.Online TestOut Simulator Hands-on Lab 3 – Name your document SU_ITS3103_w3_Lab_Results_LastName_FirstInitalPart 3 of the Course project – Name your document SU_ITS3103_W3_Project_LastName_FirstInitial.Course Project—Part 4In this part of W4 Project, you will learn about the wireless components in networks and how to select and set up cost-effective wireless technology for a network. Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research wireless technologies in networks.In this week, you will add specifications for the wireless components of your wireless network system that will support the salespeople’s mobility in your scenario.Complete the following tasks:Identify a cost-effective wireless technology that will meet the requirements of your customer scenario.Choose a service provider and justify your selection based on cellular network design issues, including tower equipment allocation, mobile switching, cellular backbone, and traffic management.Update the vendor and costs table from W3 Project based on the updates you made to the proposed network design.Finally, add a mobile network diagram that explains how this component of your solution works. You may create your own cellular network diagram or you may use an example from the literature.Compile your answers to both parts of this assignment in a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document.Submission Details:Support your responses with examples.Cite any sources in APA format.Online TestOut Simulator Hand-on Labs 4 – Name your document SU_ITS313_W4_Lab_Results_LastName_FirstInitalPart 4 of the course prjoect – Name your document SU_ITS3103_W4_Project_LastName_FirstInitial.Course Project—Part 5In this part of W5 Project, you will complete the course project you started in Week 1. You will focus on network security based on your network topology and logical network design. You will also consider physical security, information security, and appropriate security technologies.Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research network security tools and network security diagrams.Continuing with the course project, on the basis of your research and reading, complete the following tasks this week:Choose a network management tool and a security tool that can be used in your network design. There are many other tools that you can explore. Justify your selections. An example of a network monitoring tool is Paessler Router Traffic Grapher (PRTG). Click here to access the tool.Update the vendor and costs table from W4 Project based on the updates you made to the proposed network design.Finally, add a network security diagram using any of the tools that you have downloaded so far. You may also look for examples of network security diagrams over the Internet.Compile your answers to both parts of this assignment in a 7- to 8-page Microsoft Word document. Include a discussion in your response on how to utilize the knowledge/experience gained from the hands-on labs of Weeks 1–5 in doing the course project assignment components.Submission Details:Support your responses with appropriate research, reasoning, and examples.Cite any sources in APA format.Online TestOut Simulator Hand-on Lab 5 – Name your document SU_ITS3103_w5_Lab_Results_lastName_FirstInitalPart 5 of the course project – Name your document SU_ITS3103_W5_Project_LastName_FirstInitial.
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