Networking Infrastructure

Networking Infrastructure

The Scenario
London Properties is a newly established (Imaginary) property services company based in London which was formed by merging three other small companies. They have individual departments to provide Management, Letting, Valuation, Selling, Mortgage and other property related services to their clients. The company is scheduled to start its operation from the first quarter of the next financial year, 2015. Even though they are a new company, altogether they are expecting to have about 500 employees in their London (Headquarter), Manchester and Cardiff offices.
Each individual department will have its own IT department to manage & support their own requirements. In addition, the company will have a corporate IT division which will formulate the overall IT strategy and support/monitor the IT operations of the individual departments.

In line with a new strategy (Recently formulated), the company plans to implement its new network infrastructure using Windows Server network with its own DHCP, DNS, WINS, IIS (for hosting website & web-mail services) and other domain services.

Assume that you have been hired as a Network Consultant to design and implement the networking infrastructure proposed for the group.

Description of problem to be solved

As a consultant and part of your entire work, you are required to produce a design and implementation report to address IP allocation and name resolution services considering the following major issues.

Deliverables

1. Designing and implementing an automatic IP addressing mechanism
[Assessment Criteria: 1.a, 1.d]
2. Designing and implementing a domain naming strategy
[Assessment Criteria: 1.b, 1.c, 1.d]

Case Study/Background Info – Part 2
Continuing the above scenario, the strategy document highlighting the budget constraints outlines to utilize the old file servers currently based on the pre windows server 2000 systems in each company.
As a consultant considering the above mentioned additional requirements/constraints and part of your entire work, you are required to produce:

Deliverables
1. A troubleshooting, backup and fault tolerance strategy design and implementation report.
[Assessment Criteria: 2.a]
2. A guideline for network health monitoring and analysing highlighting the network monitoring tools and techniques to be used for the smooth operation.
[Assessment Criteria: 2.b, 2.c]
3. A design and implementation report to provide connectivity solutions incorporating file server and Windows clients.
[Assessment Criteria: 2.d]
Case Study/Background Info – Part 3

Additionally, the strategy document describes about linking the regional offices to the Headquarter. Moreover, the employees working in headquarter of London Properties need to access their mails from home and the network administrator & board of directors of the company need the access to the network from anywhere using internet.
Furthermore, the strategy document also describes about implementing a web based application in London Properties which allows its customers to place orders for Quotation of the Properties that contains financial figures and other very important and confidential information. Ensuring such a confidential information gathering from a web application is a great challenge so the strategy document outlines implementing certificate services in the server giving peace of mind for its customers.
As a consultant considering the above mentioned additional requirements/constraints and part of your entire work, you are required to produce:
1. A networking design and implementation report to connect headquarters and regional offices as wells as providing access from home and outside taking into consideration of performance, cost-effectiveness, authentication and authorization mechanism, monitoring by logging, security and access policies.

2. A report outlining security threats to the modern networking solutions and justify what counteractive approaches to protect the network have been undertaken while designing and implementing the entire network meeting all the requirements mentioned above.

3. A design report outlining your implementation of the certificate services to address above requirements and also justify the need of implementing IPSec to encrypt data while communicating internally and externally.
[Assessment Criteria: 3.a, 3.b, 3.c, 3.d]

Be sure to add some charts, pics and introduction, conclusion and table of contents.

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