The Scenario for Network Design Assessment Tasks Your company in Australia specialises in designing networks for local and international clients. They have won a contract to design a network for a project undertaken by a construction company in the Philippines. This company in the Philippines is planning to construct a new hotel of an international hotel chain on a big island that is situated offshore of the main island. The hotel will have 5 floors and each floor will have 80 rooms. The company also has to create trails through the rainforests in this big island and three small surrounding islands. The terrains of all four islands are not easy to access and all four islands are currently uninhabited. The wildlife habitats of the islands are protected by the government, and except for the hotel and the trails, no other permanent or temporary building constructions are allowed. The new hotel project also owns a coastal land on the main island. All four islands are 100-200km away from this coastal property and this is the shortest distance from these islands to any available Internet service. The main island has Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 200Mbps fibre optic connections. The big island can fit into a circle of 20km in radius and each small island can fit into a circle of 5km in radius. Each small island is less than 10km away from the seashore of the big island. The network design contract of your company includes the design of the network for the hotel on the big island and the Internet and phone services on all four islands. The tourists and hotel staff and tour guides should have Internet access and phone communication from anywhere on these islands to the rest of the world. The trails should have information posts that provide interactive maps and trails of the islands. The user should be able to find the shortest route to a location of interest using them. The surfers will be able to surf in the flagged area of 200m behind the hotel that runs 500m into the sea. However, this is an area known for shark attacks and the surfers should be provided with wireless communication devices to communicate with the lifeguards when required. The company in the Philippines require that the cost of Internet and phone services be minimum. Using the top-down network design methodology that you learned in this course, design the required network. Each step of your design should clearly explain and justify how you satisfy the requirements. Objectives In Assessment Item 2, you will complete your final network design report based on the written and oral feedback that you received on your Assessment Item 1. It should also contain a brief reflection justifying how your work in this course has satisfied the course learning outcomes. The reflection should be supported by the agreed outcomes of the weekly discussion questions. Please refer to the course profile to see how this assessment item relates to the course learning outcomes. Assessment Task Starting from the logical design of the network that you completed in Assessment item 1, you are required to undertake the physical design of the network taking into consideration the feedback that you received in Assessment Item 1. In order to undertake your physical design, you may need to make further justifiable assumptions. You also have to complete your final network design report. In this process, you are expected to participate in the weekly discussions and find the answers to the recommended discussion questions. Discussion questions have been selected and created not only to gradually increase your knowledge and skills in this course but also to help produce the final network design report. The students who do not attempt weekly discussion questions would very likely produce a report that would not satisfy the requirements and/or that cannot be justified. Your report should include the following: 1. Executive Summary 2. Table of Contents 3. Project Goal 4. Project Scope 5. Design requirements a. Business Goals b. Technical Goals c. User Communities and Network Applications d. List of Assumptions 6. Logical Network Design a. The logical network diagrams including addressing and naming b. The explanation and justification of your logical design c. The list of routing and switching protocols, and security mechanisms 7. Physical Network Design a. The final network diagram b. The table of networking & communication devices and applications required, including the cost of each of them, the IP addresses, the product numbers as well as the approximate total cost c. The explanation and justification for the selection of the devices and applications required. d. Write a test plan that can be used to test the new network. e. Write one detailed test script for your test plan. 8. Brief Reflection (maximum two A4 pages): Justify how your work in this course has satisfied the course learning outcomes. For your justification, you should also use the agreed outcomes of the weekly discussion questions. Your tutor will keep a copy of the agreed outcomes of the weekly discussion questions and use them when marking your brief reflection. Also include one thing that you liked about this course giving the reason and suggest an improvement to the course with the justification. Use the list of headings given below for your reflection: a. Prepare the user, business and security requirements of the organisation in relation to network design. b. Analyse the user, business and security requirements. c. Compare and contrast the possible alternative logical and physical network designs. d. Design a network by applying the top-down network design methodology. e. Create the final documentation of the designed network. f. Justify that the designed network satisfies the requirements. g. One thing you liked the most about this course. h. One suggestion to improve the course. The report must follow Harvard citation and referencing guidelines. Note: Additional information regarding this assignment may be placed on the course website. Check the course website at least once a week for further information relating to this report. Please ensure that you write your answers in your own words to avoid possible plagiarism and copyright violation. You can understand the Plagiarism Procedures by following the corresponding link in the CQUniversity Policies section of the Course Profile. Submission Your final network design report including the brief reflection to be submitted online through the COIT20264 Moodle course website assessment block on or before the due date. Assessment criteria The marking criteria for Assessment Item 2 are provided on page 3. Students need to familiarise themselves with the criteria to ensure that they have addressed them when preparing this assessment item.