ICT546: China Mining Resources Company Case Study- Packet Tracer Application- Case Study Assignment Help

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Task: China Mining, a resources company, is expanding their operations into Australia. They require a head office to be set up in Sydney (Head Office), and offices to be set up in Darwin (Office A) and Perth (Office B) which will be directly connected to the head office. You are requested to create a network design which will cater to the requirements listed  below. A proof of concept (POC) exercise is required to demonstrate the functionality of your design. This POC will be conducted using Cisco Packet Tracer and the setup saved and submitted for design approval prior to rolling out the solution. The network design must take into account factors such as classless addressing and site route summarisation where possible. Part 1 For each location a LAN must be set up. Different VLANs should be used to separate Engineering, Design and Finance departments at each site. All devices on these LANs must be able to communicate with each other as well as with devices located at the other sites. Each employee has one computer connected to the network. The number of employees is as follows:

• Head office will have 53 employees in total, 8 Design Staff, 40 Engineering Staff and 5 Finance staff.
• Office A will have 23 employees in total, 4 Design staff, 18 Engineering Staff and 1 Finance staff.
• Office B will have 12 employees in total, 7 Design staff, 4 Engineering Staff and 1 Finance staff.

It is not expected that staffing levels will increase or shrink in the future. In addition to LAN connectivity at each site, each site must be able to communicate with other sites via Serial point to point links in a hub and spoke topology, with Head Office being the hub and both Office A and Office B links terminating at the Head Office. Head office will provide the clocking rate on the Serial links for all other sites. Serial point to point link details are as follows:

• Sydney to Darwin link speed = 2 Mbps
• Sydney to Perth link speed = 1 Mbps

Create an IP addressing plan that includes each of the three sites as well as the two WAN links from the following network allocation:

• 172.16.0.0/24

The addressing plan must be created such that no addresses are wasted, i.e. the smallest subnets large enough for the given number of employees should be used at each site. Part 2 Create the POC. The hardware list for POC is as follows: Head Office

• One 2811 Router with sufficient WIC-1T modules installed in the chassis to cater to all WAN connectivity requirements and sufficient NM-2FE2W modules installed to provide enough Fast Ethernet ports to cater to all network segments within a site;
• Three 2960-24TT switches;
• One test PC for each of the three departments.

Office A and Office B

• One 2811 Router with sufficient WIC-1T modules installed in the chassis to cater to all WAN connectivity requirements and sufficient NM-2FE2W modules installed to provide enough Fast Ethernet ports to cater to all network segments within a site;
• One 2960-24TT switch;
• One test PC for each of the three departments.

VLANs and inter-VLAN routing must be set up for each site. Furthermore, routing must be set up between the different sites to allow them to communicate with one another. Choose a suitable routing strategy and justify your choice. Basic device configuration must be carried out on all routers and switches. This includes configuring host names as well as login passwords, enable passwords and enabling password login on all consoles and virtual terminals. Username and passwords must be documented. On switches, all unused ports should be shut down for security reasons. Unused ports are ports where there are no employee PCs connected, as we have more switch ports than employees. Connectivity between all departments at all sites should be verified using common testing tools. The test plan and outcomes of the testing must be documented.