Answer to Question #262169 in Computer Networks for Chakalaka

Question

The company want each department to have its own subnet. In total, Prime Innovative Technologies CC have 240 employees. Each employee owns a computer. The anticipated growth of the company is to have 2400 employees by the year 2025.

All the employees must be able to communicate with each other within the company. The company’s HQ connects to the company’s ISP.

One of the branches is recommended to make use of a switched local network that have to connect the departments. Within this branch, you are therefore required to make use of VLANs.

As an expert in network administration, you have been hired by this company to design, configure and administer their needs.

Requirements:

1. Utilising Cisco Packet Tracer, design an appropriate detailed network topology for the company.

2. Name the factors that you will take into consideration in designing this network.

3. What are the goals and assumptions of your design?

5. You are required to use routing protocol(s) of your choice.

Answer 1

The network design of the networks is given below -

Factors which we will take into the consideration in designing the network -

• Performance speed
• Network security
• Reliability
• Network and data transfer speed

Goals and assumptions of design -

The current user in the company is 240 but if in the future, company is getting expand then we had a plan for that also. We can expand the network also. As here it is mentioned that company may expand 2400 employee and the connections of computer may increase in future so have to keep in mind for the future growth of the network.