Information Technology Institute

Design and Implementation of a

Campus/University System

Network Design

University which has two campuses situated 20 miles apart.

The university’s students and staff are distributed in 4

faculties; these include the faculties of Health and Sciences;

Business; Engineering/Computing and Art/Design. Each

member of staff has a PC and students have access to PCs in

the labs. Create a network topology with the main

components to support the following:

University location.

Main Campus - Building A: Administrative staff in the departments of

management, HR and finance. The admin staff PCs are

distributed in the building offices and it is expected that

they will share some networking equipment (Hint: use of

VLANs is expected here). The Faculty of Business is also

situated in this building - Building B: Faculty of Engineering and Computing and

Faculty of Art and Design.

- Building C: Students’ labs and IT department. The IT

department hosts the University Web server and other

servers - There is also an email server hosted externally on

the cloud.

Smaller campus:

Faculty of Health and Sciences (staff and students’ labs are

situated on separate floors)

Each department/faculty is expected to be on its own

separate IP network.

The switches should be configured with appropriate VLANs

and security settings.

Routing Protocol will be used to provide routing for the

routers in the internal network and static routing for the

external server.

The devices in building A will be expected to acquire

dynamic IP addresses from a router-based DHCP server.

Configure in Packet Tracer the network with appropriate

settings to achieve the connectivity and functionalities

specified in the requirements.

Technologies Implemented

Creating a network topology using Cisco Packet Tracer.

1. Hierarchical Network Design.

2. Connecting Networking devices with Correct cabling.

3. Creating VLANs and assigning ports VLAN numbers.

4. Subnetting and IP Addressing.

5. Configuring Inter-VLAN Routing (Router on a stick).

6. Configuring DHCP Server (Router as the DHCP

Server).

7. Configuring SSH for secure Remote access.

8. Configuring any routing protocol.

9. Configuring switchport security or Port-Security on the

switches.

10. Host Device Configurations.

11. Test and Verifying Network Communication.