FACULTY OF INFORAMATION TECHNOLOGY

AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES.

DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STUDIES
LEVEL 200
Name: IndexNumber:
Okyere Theophilus Kofi 10114725
Sowah Emmanuel 10118036
Keziah Nhyira Bosomtwe 10113830
Aaron Tetteh 10117661
Simon Kudjorji 10118068
Abdul-Majeed 10115557
 A NETWORK SHOWING THE IP
ADRESSES,
WIRED AND WIRELESS NETWORK
DESIGN FOR LANS AND WANS
FOR A UNIVERSITY
 OUTLINE

I. INTRODUCTION
II. OBEJECTIVE
III. CAPACITY
IV. RELIABILITY
V. DESIGNING THE NETWORK
 INTRODUCTION

•A university is an institution of higher education

and research which awards academic degrees in
several academic disciplines. Universities typically
offer both undergraduate and postgraduate
programs.
• Technology has reached its peak of advancement, particularly in terms of
making people's lives simpler. When it comes to processing calculations, well-
implemented technology is both faster and more precise than humans.
Technology has advanced into  important concept in our society.

•   It helps to bring communities closer together. People have evidently begun to

utilize technology in every field of life including education, health, the military,
etc.
• A university’s computer network performs so many functions, such
as connecting students with the university, faculty, and the library.
Most universities today use the network to provide online education
by connecting widely dispersed students with their lecturers directly.
For this reason, computer networks play a vital role in the education
sector by providing efficient communications for the university
environment
• However, the design of computer networks differs from one university to another.
• This is as a result of many factors which determine the differences. Such factors
include;
 adaptability
 integration
 resilience
 security
 cost.
 Installing networks in a university
• relies on the university’s budget, which differs by institution and from country to
country.
 OBEJECTIVE
• The main goal is to design a network showing the IP addresses, wired and
wireless network for LANs and WANs for a university.
 CAPACITY
This is the ability of the network to withstand intense pressure from utilization.

Most times, the networks are mainly crowded by many users that the network
capacity could not handle. It is very important to design a network in such a way
to handle many users without failure. This network is designed for a user
population of 5075.

If more users access the network, it will be able to scale.

 RELIABILITY
• Reliability refers to the ability of the computer network’s hardware and software

• component to consistently perform according to its specifications.

• Reliability of the security in the network is in high level. This is because there are
many powerful devices used to secure data like the firewall device that is used in
filtering data entering into the network. If any issue happens to the data, there is
a way of restoring the data from backup servers.

• Each computer in the network has anti-virus to protectusers’ data.

• Also, all router and switches are protected by passwords and encryptions.
 DESIGNING THE NETWORK
• Equipment and Design Selection

• Network Topology

• A network topology defines how hosts are connected to a computer network.

It characterizes how the PCs and other hosts are organized, and linked to each
other. There are many types of network topology such as:

• Point-to-Point, Bus, Star, Ring, and Mesh topology.

• Each type has a different set of advantages and disadvantages.

Network Topology to be used in a
university network design

• the network topology that is

suitable for a university campus
is the star topology. it has a low
start-up cost and its is easier to
add more devices to the
network. the star topology
makes the network robust and it
also has a faster performance.
• Choosing the Equipment

• Each network must have a media for transferring information from one node
to another, or from one device to other devices.

• These media play a significant role in determining the transmission speed of

the network, maximum distance, shielding against interference of the network.
There are two options for general use:

• One of them is a physical connection, and the other one is wireless.

The transmission media can be either guided or unguided.

Examples of guided media include wired technology such as:

• coaxial cable (e.g. cable TV systems)

• unshielded twisted pair (e.g. DSL broadband)

• fibre optic (e.g. high speed cable systems).

Examples of unguided media include wireless technology such as:

• WiFi (e.g. home network, campus network)

• cellular (e.g. 3G, 4G, 5G mobile phones)

• Devices Used
• All devices to be used, such as routers, switches, servers, etc, in this network
design, will be chosen from the Cisco company.
The number of hosts to be used is 5075 for them network and is distributed
among various sections or colleges in a university.
• The design will need 13 Cisco routers, 100 switches, three computer servers,
20 access points, one firewall device, one backup device, one rack, 50 boxes of
twisted pair cable, 150 boxes of RJ 45 connectors and approximately 5000
terminals.
The table below shows the numbers of IP address and hosts that will be used for
each college at the university.