Computer Networks – (UCS414)

Home Assignment
(Marks: 5, Date of submission: 31 March 2023)

A company ‘STAR NETWORK’ has three interconnected offices namely OA, OB, and OC.
OA is the head office run by the Chairman, One Manager, One Legal advisor and 6
clerks/stenos. OA has direct dedicated connectivity with OB and OC. OB has a Team Manager
and a team of 7 members for developing software. OC has 14 customer care executives and has
accessibility to the clients who offers project to the company. OB is thus working as main
interface between the company office (OA) and the clients (OC). You have been hired as an IT
Administrator at the IT department and asked to analyze, design, and configure the new
network for the given scenario.

Given Network Addresses for three offices are:

Sr. No Office Network ID

1 Office (OA) 194.168.1.0/26
2 Office (OB) 10.20.0.0/18
3 Office (OC) 172.16.0.0/22

Perform the following task for the given problem statement:-

1. Draw a network diagram and show the connectivity for the given case study.
 2. Identify the type and count of devices used to create the network like Router, Switches, Hub
etc.

Connecting devices required to build the above network are as follows :-

Router : 3
Switches : 3
Personal Computers : 31

3. Give the complete details of the configuration of the three offices as:

Office- OA Identified values

Network Address 194.168.1.0
Allocated subnet address and subnet mask 194.168.1.0/26 & 255.255.255.192
Default gateway address 194.168.1.62
Valid host range 62
Broadcast address 194.168.1.63

Office- OB Identified values

Network Address 10.20.0.0
Allocated subnet address and subnet mask 10.20.0.0/18 & 255.255.192.0
Default gateway address 10.20.255.254
Valid host range 16382
Broadcast address 10.20.255.255

Office- OC Identified values

Network Address 172.16.0.0
Allocated subnet address and subnet mask 172.16.0.0/22 & 255.255.252.0
Default gateway address 172.16.3.254
Valid host range 1022
Broadcast address 172.16.3.255
4. Copy and paste the Network Topology done in GNS3. (use screen shot). Write your name
and roll number on top left corner on the network topology.

5. Copy and paste the configuration settings done in GNS3. (Do not use screen shot)

For pc 1 (assigning ip address )

Ip 10.20.0.1

R3 for port (fastEthernet 1/0)

Config t
Int f1/0
Ip address 10.20.255.254 255.255.192.0
no shut
router rip
version 2
network 10.20.0.0
exit
exit
ping 10.20.0.1

R3 for port (fastEthernet 1/1)

Config t
Int f1/1
Ip address 10.20.255.253 255.255.192.0
no shut
router rip
version 2
network 10.20.0.0
exit
exit
ping 10.20.0.1

For pc 2 (assigning ip address)

Ip 172.16.0.1

R2 for port (fastEthernet 0/0)

Config t
Int f0/0
Ip address 172.16.3.254 255.255.252.0
no shut
router rip
version 2
network 172.16.0.0
exit
exit
ping 172.16.0.1

R1 for port (fastEthernet 0/0)

Config t
Int f0/0
Ip address 172.16.3.253 255.255.252.0
no shut
router rip
version 2
network 172.16.0.0
exit
exit
ping 172.16.0.1

For pc 3 (assigning ip address )

Ip 194.168.1.1

R3 for port (fastEthernet 1/1)

Config t
Int f1/1
Ip address 194.168.1.62 255.255.255.192
no shut
router rip
version 2
network 194.168.1.0
exit
exit
ping 194.168.1.1

R2 for port (fastEthernet 1/1)

Config t
Int f1/1
Ip address 194.168.1.61 255.255.255.192
no shut
router rip
version 2
network 194.168.1.0
exit
exit
ping 194.168.1.1

6. If the company plans for virtualization and cloud based storage in near future then state
which among the cloud service providers IBM Cloud (Kyndryl), Amazon Web Services
(AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you will prefer for the company. You are required to
write a short, but comprehensive, report to distinguish (compare) among these service
providers.

Ans :

IBM Cloud (Kyndryl): After its acquisition of SoftLayer in 2013 (the largest
private cloud provider at the time), IBM has continued to grow its cloud services and is currently
listed as one of the leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud.

AWS(Amazon Web Services): AWS is a cloud computing platform

developed by Amazon—the retail e-commerce giant. Launched in 2006, AWS was an early
pioneer in the cloud industry and has grown to become the market leader with a 32% market
share. WS is the first choice for IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) platform for many enterprises.
It provides over 200 cloud services at a competitive price in 245 countries around the world.

Google Cloud Platform(GCP): Google Cloud Platform (GCP) was

launched in preview in 2008 as “App Engine” and officially became GCP in 2012.As of 2021,
GCP offers over 120 cloud services. Although its portfolio of cloud services is not as extensive
as AWS or Azure, GCP is incredibly well-funded. Additionally, its tools for machine learning
and containers are some of the best in the industry. Google’s commitment to open source also
makes it an attractive choice for developers.

Features:
IBM: IBM provides the core cloud services such as compute, storage and networking. For
compute, organizations have the choice of bare-metal or virtual servers. With bare-metal
servers, clients have sole access to the entire server and can fully customize it according to need,
thus avoiding the “noisy neighbour” effect and improving overall performance.

AWS: AWS has the biggest market share of all platforms, perhaps due to its extensive feature
list. Its main cloud compute service is EC2—virtual servers that provide secure and flexible
compute capacity in the cloud. It supports Windows, Linux, and other Unix operating systems
and can facilitate high performance computing. Other AWS services you may be familiar with
include VPC, IAM, S3 storage, RDS Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto Scaling. Similar versions
of these services are available from other cloud providers, but as a pioneer in the cloud industry,
Amazon has definitely been a driving force behind these. Besides the core computing, storage,
and database services, AWS also offers a number of “serverless” services. This includes
containerized applications running on Kubernetes clusters, code development, integration,
deployment, and Lambda functions just to name just a few. Some of the other popular AWS
services include: Redshift for data warehousing, EMR for Analytics, Kinesis for streaming data,
DynamoDB for NoSQL database, Route 53 for DNS, or SQS for message queuing. Amazon
develops and markets its AWS services at a fierce rate to keep ahead of the competition and
brings in new services each year.

GCP: Google Cloud Platform offers over 120 services to its customers. Although this is a
smaller number compared to its competitors, there’s still a wide variety of compute, networking,
storage and machine learning services to make it the third-most popular cloud platform to
enterprises. One of its primary services is the Compute Engine which supports almost any
operating system and has options for both custom and pre-defined machine types. Other popular
GCP services include Cloud Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Apigee, Lokker, Firestore, etc. One advantage
Google has over AWS is its large-scale private networks. AWS relies heavily on the public
internet for data transmission, making it more latent than Google. If low latency is important to
your business, Google might win the battle.

Pricing: To accurately compare cloud instance prices, you need to understand the discount
methods for each of the cloud providers since that will be a major driver in the price you pay.
all offer publicly available discounts (reaching as high as 75 percent) in exchange for
committing to usage on the cloud provider for a one-year or three-year period. In all cases, you
can decide how much usage to commit and how much to leave as on-demand. IBM only offers
public discounts for monthly usage, which saves about 10 percent over on-demand usage.
Google also offers a Sustained Use Discount (SUD), which requires no commitment but offers
an automatic discount on each instance type that is running in a region for more than 25 percent
of a month. For instances running 24×7 for an entire month, the discount maxes out at 30
percent.

Conclusion: Comparing AWS to Google to IBM isn’t a simple task. It becomes even more
difficult for organizations that have never used any cloud platform and are only just starting the
journey. or one thing, providers are always updating pricing across their service range. And the
same service across different cloud providers would be available in a number of configurations
that can’t be compared apple to apple. For example, if you are building a system with IBM
Watson, signing up for the IBM cloud may be the logical choice. Similarly, If you’re looking
for an open-source friendly environment, a more transparent pricing structure, or want to use
the most advanced machine learning and AI tools, Google could be a better fit.