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UNIVERSITY CAMPUS NETWORK DESIGN | Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgement Declaration 1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. Project Scope 3.1. The physical size of the campus (locations of buildings & departments) 3.2. The size, number of computer labs & number of computers (locations) 3.3. The number of staff and their categories 3.4. The faculties and the number of students 3.5. The Servers, Databases, & Applications 3.6. Further considerations included in the project scope, 4. Network Design & Analysis 4.1. Basic network design 4.2. Placement of the servers 4.3. Network usability (traffic allocation) 4.4. Network analysis results 5. Conclusion 5.1. Overall project analysis 5.2. Recommendations 5.3. Future enhancements Appendix A – Detailed network diagrams Appendix B – OPNET Modeler Design Appendix C – OPNET Modeler workout List of Acronyms Notes 03 04 05 06 07 07 12 13 14 15 16 17 17 18 20 22 35 35 36 37 38 44 46 74
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UNIVERSITY CAMPUS NETWORK DESIGN | Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
This group assignment is a result of knowledge and experience gathered in the past months preparing for final year BSc Degree in Computer Systems & Network Engineering.
First of all we the group members would like to thank Mr. Mohamed Azeem, MSc (London), BSc (London), for introducing & teaching us the Network Technology & Performance Evaluation programme in PGPN course, and being our project supervisor, who gave us continuous support throughout the assignment to make this successful.
We would like to thank our teachers including Mr. Ilham & Mr. Lakmal Embuldeniya of PIBT for teaching us Network Implementation & Management which are vital for completing this assignment.
Finally, thanks for the software providers MS-Visio, MS-Visual Studio & MS-Word, MS-Excel, OPNET Modeler.
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UNIVERSITY CAMPUS NETWORK DESIGN | Declaration
Declaration
I certify that this dissertation does not incorporate, without acknowledgement,
UNIVERSITY CAMPUS NETWORK DESIGN | Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgement Declaration 1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. Project Scope 3.1. The physical size of the campus (locations of buildings & departments) 3.2. The size, number of computer labs & number of computers (locations) 3.3. The number of staff and their categories 3.4. The faculties and the number of students 3.5. The Servers, Databases, & Applications 3.6. Further considerations included in the project scope, 4. Network Design & Analysis 4.1. Basic network design 4.2. Placement of the servers 4.3. Network usability (traffic allocation) 4.4. Network analysis results 5. Conclusion 5.1. Overall project analysis 5.2. Recommendations 5.3. Future enhancements Appendix A – Detailed network diagrams Appendix B – OPNET Modeler Design Appendix C – OPNET Modeler workout List of Acronyms Notes 03 04 05 06 07 07 12 13 14 15 16 17 17 18 20 22 35 35 36 37 38 44 46 74
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UNIVERSITY CAMPUS NETWORK DESIGN | Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
This group assignment is a result of knowledge and experience gathered in the past months preparing for final year BSc Degree in Computer Systems & Network Engineering.
First of all we the group members would like to thank Mr. Mohamed Azeem, MSc (London), BSc (London), for introducing & teaching us the Network Technology & Performance Evaluation programme in PGPN course, and being our project supervisor, who gave us continuous support throughout the assignment to make this successful.
We would like to thank our teachers including Mr. Ilham & Mr. Lakmal Embuldeniya of PIBT for teaching us Network Implementation & Management which are vital for completing this assignment.
Finally, thanks for the software providers MS-Visio, MS-Visual Studio & MS-Word, MS-Excel, OPNET Modeler.
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UNIVERSITY CAMPUS NETWORK DESIGN | Declaration
Declaration
I certify that this dissertation does not incorporate, without acknowledgement,