Referencing Styles : APA IST 7040 Data Communications and Networking Network Design Project Your team of networking consultants has been called into the corporate office of the CEO of Everlast Athletics located in Philadelphia, PA. Everlast is a leading U.S. manufacturer of sports apparel called ‘Dry Fit’. The CEO Michael Smith tells you he has a several network problems to solve and needs your help: 1. Everlast has just purchased another company called Riddell Sports, Inc. located in Dallas, TX which manufactures the "Lite n’ Dry" line of athletic wear. Riddell Sports’ offices need to be added to the new Everlast corporate wide area network. 2. Riddell Sports has an existing website but Everlast does not. Everlast has decided to move the web hosting activities for www.riddellsports.comfrom Dallas to Philadelphia and re-design the website to include both Riddell and Everlast products. A new domain name www.everlast.com will be set up for Everlast Athletics as an alias to the existing domain name www.riddellsports.com. Your team asks Mr. Smith what Everlast and Riddell currently have in place and what are his requirements for a new network design? Mr. Smith first gives you some details about the current company locations and networking capabilities: • Everlast Athletics Everlast has 2 buildings in Philadelphia. The corporate office building has 4 floors, with about 30 workstations on the first floor connected to a single switch with cat 5e cabling. There are 65 user workstations on the 2nd floor hosting Engineering (35 workstations) and the HR (30 workstations) departments. 6 single servers for the corporate databases and 4 physical servers for e-mail are also connected to the switch, as well as a 6 year old router connecting to an ISP via a T-1 leased phone line. The servers are connected to a 2TB storage array that is out of support and 90% utilized. The top 2 floors of the corporate building are vacant and used for storage. The "Dry Fit" manufacturing operation is in a large single story building across the paved parking lot (about 285 ft.) from the Everlast corporate office. There are 12 aging physical servers used to support manufacturing operations. The servers are out of support and experience regular hardware failures. Mr. Smith expressed his desire to virtualize all of the servers replacing the aging hardware in place today and to look at opportunities for using Cloud Based solutions. • Riddell Sports Riddell has an office building and a manufacturing building in 2 locations in Dallas. The office building has 2 floors with about 20 workstations, 1 switch, 1 router, and a server with T-1 Internet connectivity almost identical to the Everlast corporate office on the first floor. The second floor contains the Riddell website hosting facilities, including 6 load-balanced web servers and 6 database servers, a router, and T-1 Internet connectivity. The website is available 24x7 and serves customers nationwide. The "Lite n’ Dry" athletic wear manufacturing plant is located somewhere across town and currently has no network components. Mr. Smith expressed his desire to virtualize all of the servers replacing the aging hardware in place today and to look at opportunities for using Cloud Based solutions. After reviewing your understanding of the current network architecture with Mr. Smith, he explains his plans for the future and the network design requirements: • The Everlast corporate offices will continue to be in Philadelphia with expanded use of all 4 floors of the current office building. The HR team should be moved to the 4th floor onto their own LAN. The old Riddell office in Dallas will become a regional Everlast office and be connected to the Everlast corporate network. • Network connections will be added to provide primary corporate connectivity in addition to Internet access, although the Internet connections will serve as backup in case of failure of the new corporate connections. • Both manufacturing buildings (Philadelphia and Dallas) will continue to be used and also connected to the Everlast corporate network. Each manufacturing location should support up to a dozen workstations. • The existing Riddell web site domain name will be preserved. Hosting will be migrated to new Philadelphia hosting servers located on a new LAN on the second floor of the Everlast Philadelphia office. New servers will need to be installed to host the new company’s website that uses both the new domain name www.Everlast.com as well as the existing www.riddellsports.com domain name. Dallas will be modified, if necessary, to serve as a secondary (back-up) hosting site. • 12 new workstations on a new LAN will be added for network administration and help desk support on the same floor as the primary web servers in Philadelphia. • 10 new workstations for web site development and engineering support will be added on a new LAN on the third floor of the Philadelphia building. A test website for testing new versions of the web software will be co-located with the developers on the third floor but on a separate LAN. • Appropriate network security should be in place to protect the corporate network from unauthorized use. • The design should be flexible and allow for further company expansion without major network changes. • All LANs should be part of the new Everlast corporate intranet and have internal IP addresses. • LAN-to-LAN traffic capacity should have better than 1.5 Mbps throughput within the corporate wide area network. WAN Internet links should have better than 1.5 Mbps capacity to support Internet access and website access. • The corporate network should be designed to minimize single points of failure. • The migration of the www.riddellsports.com website from Dallas to Philadelphia should be seamless and with minimal loss of service to the existing Riddell Sports customers. • In the event of a complete site failure in Philadelphia or in Dallas, a Disaster Recovery strategy should be in place to bring the failed site back on line with the assistance of a 3rd party facility. Replication of data off site will be critical to Business Continuity. After studying the current configuration and required network changes, describe your network design for Everlast Inc. by answering the following questions: 1. Draw a network diagram of your new network design, showing all the LANs, workstations, servers, internetworking components, and WAN connections in all locations. Identify any back-up networking components. 2. Explain your concept of the Everlast corporate intranet and where you allow outside connection(s) to the Internet. 3. Explain how you will address Mr. Smith’s desire to move towards a virtualized server environment and how you will leverage cloud based solutions to streamline management of business needs. 4. Explain how you will handle the problem with storage utilization and the overall current state of the storage hardware platform. 5. Explain your IP addressing plan. Show the class and location of each distinct subnet and list the subnet masks. List the IP addresses of all workstations and all devices connected to LANs. List any external IP addresses and where address translations will be performed, if necessary. 6. What media will you use to connect the LANs in each location? What media will you use to interconnect the LANs? 7. List any new DNS changes you would request for the riddellsports.com domain or the new Everlast.com domain. 8. Explain your plan for migration of the www.riddellsports.com website from Dallas to Philadelphia with minimal loss of service to the customer. How will the database file(s) be moved with integrity from Dallas to Philadelphia? 9. How will you test the new primary website (Philadelphia) before migration? How will you test the new secondary (back-up) website (in Dallas) after migration? 10. In the event of a failure with the primary website, how will you switch to the backup site in Dallas? How will you test the failover scenario? 11. Considering site tolerance, in the event of a complete site failure in Philadelphia or Dallas, explain how you will provide off site Disaster Recovery to a 3rd party provider. 12. Explain your approach for network security for the new Everlast network. Show the location of any firewalls in your network design. 13. Explain how you divided up the design work between/among your team members.