IT 505 Network Management and Design Management
Assignment 2
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THE CASE : National Wide Insurance (NWI) is a health insurance company that provides services to the hospitals national wide. Please see the main parameter of NWI company.
LOCAL AREA NETWORK
Question 1
Design the LAN for one of the 8 LANs in Chicago Center. In one LAN, there are 15 desktop computers and all connected to ; Print server, Email Server, FTP server, Local HR database, Local Customer database and the intranet.
Provide Local Area Network block diagramwith all components.
Use https://www.draw.io/ to develop/draw network diagram.
Question 2
BACKBONE NETWORK
Design the Backbone Network for Miami Center only.
A Provide the block diagram that covers 3 layers of BACKBONE NETWORK. The Access Layer, Distribution layer and the core layer. You should consider the connection the intranet as well.
Use https://www.draw.io/ to develop/draw network diagram.
Question 3
WIDE AREA NETWORK
Wide area network requirements (expectations) for National Wide Insurance. The centers must be connected to each other based on the given “WAN Expected data rates between cities”
| EXTRANET REQUIREMENTS | |
| New York – Chicago | 5 Gbps |
| New York – Dallas | 700 Mbps |
| Chicago – Los Angles | 2Gbps |
| Los Angles – Dallas | 1 Mbps |
| Dallas – Miami | 500 Mbps |
| Miami- New York | 4 Gbps |
Provide the block diagram and clearly indicate the network topology you would prefer to connect all five sites of National Wide Insurance (NWI). You may use USA Map to draw network diagram.Download USA Map from the web and place the nodes/cities on the map and then draw the topology.