CCNA Discovery: Networking for Home and Small Businesses

Chapter 3 Case Study

2009 Cisco Learning Institute

CHAPTER 3 OBJECTIVES Explain the concept of networking and the benefits of networks. Explain the concept of communication protocols. Explain how communication occurs across a local Ethernet network. Describe Access layer devices and communication methods on a local Ethernet network. Describe Distribution layer devices and communication methods across networks. Plan, implement, and verify a local network. SCENARIO 3 Now that your suggestions for equipment have been accepted in principle by the real estate company owners, you need to consider how it will all be connected and networked together. Clearly, this is one of the most important tasks to consider. You are adamant that the lack of effective networking has been the major cause of the problems and frustration in the previous office, and you want to make certain that this is a reference system that you can promote to future clients! The new office will have a frontoffice reception area for the office manager. In addition, there will be separate offices for the two owners, a general conference area that can be used as a private room for client discussions by the agents, and four cubicle areas that will not be allocated to any particular person. There is also an equipment room that can be locked. It contains the main telephone demarcation point, and has an individual airconditioning unit that can be used separately from the office cooling / heating system. The office also has a kitchen and a recreation area with a table and six chairs, and male and female restrooms (see embedded diagram).

TASKS 3

1. Develop a plan for a local area network for the office. You should indicate how you propose to provide access to the network for office staff, casual staff, and clients who may wish to access the Internet for various reasons. I propose to provide access to the network for office staff, casual staff, and clients who may wish to access the Internet by using a client / server network. 2. Indicate whether you plan to use a peer to peer network or a client / server network, and the reasons why you have made this choice. I plan to use a client / server network because it has centralization, proper management, back-up and recovery is possible, upgradation and scalability in client server set-up, accessibility, files are stored, accessed, and changed in the central computer, security, and different use for different clients. 3. What type of cabling will you propose? How many cable outlets should be included at each workstation? Should there be cable outlets at various common usage areas of the office? What provision should be made for voice communications? How might this be achieved? Cat5e cables, 1 cable outlet at each workstation, there should be cable outlets at various common usage areas, computer-to-computer VoIP because it is cheap and easy to use. 4. What type of network devices will be included? Computers, printers, fax, tablets, laptops 5. Broadly, how will internet access be achieved? (This will be covered in detail in the next section.) Internet access can be achieved through my client/server network 6. Is wireless a part of your plan? Why? It is not needed because using wires is faster and more reliable. 7. How will workstations and other devices be addressed? Define a simple, suitable addressing plan for the network.

Class A private addresses is 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255

Office name-type of device-room number- computer number 8. The office manager is concerned about security. What additional equipment could be linked into the network to provide some security?

Firewall, antivirus software, user accounts, passwords, and VPN client which will enable computers to access private virtual network 9. It is proposed to include a television in the staff kitchen area. Can this be included on the network? Should it? What limitations and / or restrictions should be imposed? It can be included on the network, but it shouldnt be added to the network, limitations would be that it isnt connected to the network at all. 10. When you have completed your plan, you should use Packet Tracer to build a model and check out that it will achieve what you expect. Dont have packet tracer, cant do it

The daughter of the agent who you recently assisted with some mathematic skills has now been accepted in a computer science class. She is delighted, of course! However, she is having some difficulties with understanding the issue of protocols and especially what is meant by a nondeterministic or probabilistic system such as Ethernet.

11. Your remaining task is to develop a brief presentation for the student that indicates what is meant by a nondeterministic protocol, and simplistically explain how an Ethernet frame is used to carry information between two linked devices. You may use a hub between the devices, but do not utilize a switch as this will complicate the fundamental issue.

A non-deterministic protocol is a protocol that uses random number generation, or psuedo-random numbers. An Ethernet frame is a way of arranging sections of data for transfer over a computer network.