Final Network Design Report

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PROJECT PART 1: NETWORK DESIGN

Names

Sai karthik Kandala Venkata Surya

Hyder Ali Mohammed

Leela Prasanth Reddy Punyasamudram

Venkata Siva Parvathi Velugoti

Yashasri Umareddy

Jaswanth Varma Poranki

Institution

University of the Cumberlands

Professor

Dr. Awny Alnusair

Course

ISOL-532 M20 GROUP4

Date

05/21/2021

NetWay Corporation Network Infrastructure

Planning a network to meet high level planning needs at NetWay Corporation is an essential framework for the organization to achieve its set objectives and mission goals. Stakeholder satisfaction in the efforts to make profits has been an important consideration made by the organization’s senior management. The operational planning involves implementing processes and measures for project management, time usage and proper budgeting of the available resources. An outline of tasks and allocation of the responsibilities can be achieved through the network design – increasing accountability and management of the compliance practices. Efficiency in productivity is can be improved based on the network infrastructure depicted in the Figure 1 below.

The high level planning of the network design focuses on user and system management for the network. User management involves management of the user accounts through creating, reading, updating and deleting user profiles by the network and system administration who manage the organization’s network and database systems. System administration goals are captured in the policies and procedures that define software/system development, testing, implementation/deployment and maintenance (upgrades/updates and configurations) practices. Installations and configurations of new programs and user management is eased on high level planning of the network design, implemented by the IT department and management of NetWay Corporation.

The network design and infrastructure implements the security policies for the company for secured internal access while ensuring the public access to the computing resources does not affect the availability of the website. The topology in figure 1 aims to solve issues to do with non-compliance that’s affecting most of the companies in the IT industry. NetWay Corporation’s network topology ensures availability and assured service uptime to the business customers/clients and other stakeholders who transact with the company.

Figure 1: Network Topology

The recommendations for the design of network in this paper addresses the security risks, threats and vulnerabilities potential to the NetWay’s assets and end users of its products and services. The hardware components of the network such as the switches, servers etc., are labeled by vendor-specification’s in form addresses and location, and a strong emphasis on consumer protection and company’s security policies that should be incorporated into the operational goals in the network design and implementation. The software solutions must also address the security features from the developer’s options per the company’s policy framework. The policy solutions from all outsourced solutions must also include critical details that a service level agreement should contain and also address the weaknesses identified by the organization’s management. The overall cost of the network i.e. implementation, training and maintenance are key considerations in the financial and technical feasibilities of the new network design. The trade-off relationship between security policies and business requirements are quantifiable in mixed analysis to ascertain the impact of the network topology and planning to the business model of the corporation.

The IP addressing of the devices used in the network design is based on multi-vendor operability of the network components. Compatibility of the devices with the existing computing infrastructure is very important to the corporation to achieve its technological competitiveness in the ever-changing environment. The decision here comes in whether to use IP version 4 or 6 in the unique addressing of the devices during their installations and configurations. According to statistics from different analytics of networking concepts that relate to IP addressing, usage IPv4 is dominant over IPv6. Though, IPv4 addresses are diminishing as the technology advances while on the other hand, IPv6 has optimum security features. In the organization, most of the devices are operating on IPv4, making the IPv6 costly to implement since unsupported devices will be rendered useless. Thus, transition to IPv6 would require massive investments from companies and organizations on their computing infrastructure – financial feasibility and knowledge is a challenge to most organizations. NetWay is not exceptional to these market trends thus, it is expected that the company will undertake a gradual upgrades from IPv4 to IPv6. Compatibility would also involve configurations of the devices and software such as the operating systems. Due to the shortcomings of IPv6, IPv4 will be applied in NetWay’s computing systems for a while till the organization will have full capacity to adopt the IPv6 addressing.

Generally, IP addressing is built on networking concepts and standards on software, hardware and policy agreements in the multi-vender.

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