MN 621- Advanced Network Design

Table of Contents

Introduction 3

Comparative scope Analysis 3

Comparative project requirement analysis 4

Comparative network design Analysis 4

Overall Analysis 5

References 6

1.0 Introduction

The main purpose of the Network design analysis is to evaluate the network architecture, protocols, technologies used and processes used to implement the task over the network.  Here in this assignment in part one in the individual task, each group member was instructed to visit an organization and perform the network analysis in the organization and present the analysis of the network design, analysis of the network performance  and at the end on the basis of information gained and further research conducted the innovative ideas for improving the current network design of the organization was required to present.  Here in this, a comparative analysis of the findings of all the group members in a summarized manner will be presented.

2.0 Comparative Scope Analysis     

In this section, the comparative study of the detail presented in the scope analysis will be presented –

Here at first the analysis of the Sireesha Ramieni report, She performed the network analysis at the Galston High School. Here she focused in-depth on the Virtual Network system of the organization. The second group member Sagar Debnath performed the network at the Parameter Technology that is selling computers, laptops and other computer-related accessories.  Here in this report, he has raised the issue of Network infrastructure wonderfully. The third group member Venkatesh Mayaluri has also performed the network analysis at the Glaston High School, where he focused on the analysis of the network infrastructure and the analysis of the network technologies used for designing the network was evaluated. The fourth group member Mohammad Ibrahim Mastan Ali has not

analyzed a particular company network structure but has presented a general analysis of the network design, he stressed more on general shortcomings of the network design in most companies. The fifth and last member of the group Milin Kumar Patel has also done his network analysis at the Galston High School. He focused more on the Cisco packet analysis on the network system to achieve more detailed information.

3.0   Comparative Project Requirement Analysis

     Sireesha Ramieni report has presented the extensive detail on the requirement of the network design in the Galston High School, it has also clearly depicted the goal of the network is to improve the current network design to provide better network facility at the campus. She highlighted the two main requirements for the campus firstly the need to develop an effective network that could balance the network load effectively and secondly the requirement of a high level of network security at the campus. Similarly, the Sagar Debnath has highlighted the main requirement of the Proper IT infrastructure that could provide support to the customers and employees in the conductive environment. Along with this, the proposed IT infrastructure should support various content management activities, messaging and emailing, printing, file storage and sharing etc. Venkatesh Mayaluri has briefly presented the requirement detail for the Glaston High School but has given all the requirements related to the network configuration and firewall security requirement in the points which immediately can be understood.  Mohammad Ibrahim Mastan Ali has presented the overall general requirements of the companies like it is highly required to focus on the day to day activities of the network system and focusing on the common problems that network users at any organization face on the regular basis. In the end, Milin Kumar Patel has briefly given the network requirements with the bullet points, though requirements are given briefly but are clearly understood.

4.0 Analysis of Network design

        Sireesha Ramieni report has given the network design layout firstly than it presented the network diagram and simplified network design in an elaborated manner. The report has also presented a detailed description of the given network design too with clear specification of the departments and VLAN description over the network system. Further with another network diagram the description for the IP addressing, routing protocols and network configuration has been given. The snapshots of the Server configuration have also been given in the report. Similarly, the Sagar Debnath has also presented the network design in well layout manner, firstly he had given the Network design justification, which gives the detail of the requirement of availability, scalability, manageability and security aspects. Then he had given the Network design layout, further the detail of the IP addressing in the tabular form has been given. Then the report has also given the IP addressing table in the well-described manner too. Then the discussion on the routing and network security has also been given. The detailed description of the network switches and router configuration has also been given. Later Venkatesh Mayaluri has wonderfully presented the detail of the Cisco network tools to be addressed to use in the proposed network design in the well-illustrated form. He has given a clear specification for network design for each department. Further, the description of the DHCP server has also been given. The detailed description of the IP addressing has also been given in the report. He has also given the advantages of using the FTP server in the school network system. The report has focused more on the Finance block of the school. This report has also given the various snapshots of the Server configuration. The detail of the DNS server has also been given. The network design with a description of the firewall configuration has been presented. Further, the report of 0Mohammad Ibrahim Mastan Ali has given the network design justification and network design in a brief manner but the points have been presented clearly. The snapshots of the server configuration have also been given in the report. In the end, the Milin Kumar Patel has given brief but effective justification for the proposed network design. As discussed in the above section his report has been focused more on providing the detail for the proposed configuration for Cisco tools for designing the network system. It has also given detail of IP address in tabular form.  At the end of the report, the network topology diagram and implementation were presented.  The network design layout has clearly described the network configuration. The report has presented the detail of VLAN also in a well-illustrated manner.

Overall Analysis

All the group members have analyzed the network design and presented their proposal in a well-formulated manner. The most remarkable point of consideration is that except Mohammad Ibrahim Mastan Ali and Sagar Debnath, has analyzed in the Galston High School but each group member has analyzed the network design by analyzing different aspects.  Most importantly the overall analysis presented by the group members is wonderfully presented and will be help-full in real-time implementation. Though if the detail of protocols could have been presented in more detail the analysis can be more detailed manner.

Network-  Performance compare and contrast table

Future Trends

• It is advised to adopt the VLAN Technologies for network design.
• The 5G and supported network architecture should be adopted.
• To focus more on the Micro –Architecture system for network designing.
• To adopt the 4D network designing.
• To use the open network switches.

References

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