Case Analysis

Task:

Design a wired network for Maury High school. Your plan must include two live network outlets for each classroom and office connected to a secured Internet connection that the whole school will share. The school will not have any Internet facing servers.

  1. A plan and budget for the wiring of the building that includes an estimated total of the cable runs to each room and between the equipment room and the telecomm closets, along with an estimate of the total amount of cabling needed. Your budget should include the total cost of cabling, costs of RJ45 outlets and wall plates in the classrooms/offices, and patch panels in the equipment room and telecomm closets. Indicate the sources of your pricing information. Indicate on the floor plan where the equipment room and telecomm closets will be. You have permission to use up to four of the small offices shown on the floor plan (these small offices are circled on the file named “Offices”). You will have to determine the scale of the floor plan yourself, assuming that Maury is 300 feet wide (do not ask to go into the building). The floor plan you have been given does not match the current floor plan of Maury.
  2. A plan and budget of where and what equipment is needed to support an Ethernet network that connects all of the rooms in Maury High School, including patch cables and managed switches. The total number of Ethernet ports purchased must be at least 10% more than the total number of outlets. Indicate what equipment is to be installed in each equipment room and telecomm closet. Indicate the sources of your pricing information.
  3. A plan and budget for securing network traffic within Maury and to the Internet, including a firewall that supports 200-300 users. Your plan should include a network diagram with separate subnets/VLANs to separate staff traffic from student traffic. Your firewall should be able to allow and block traffic from any internal subnet or address to any Internet subnet or address. Indicate the sources of your pricing information.

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