NAME : AWIL MAALIM ABDULLAI

REG NO: BIT-1-9952-3-2018

UNIT : NETWORK HARDWARE AND CONFIGURATION

UNIT CODE : CISY332

Consider a an organization whose premises has three buildings and would wish to join all of then
in a Campus Area Network using Backbone network Technology, based on Structured Cabling.
Each building has two or more local area networks and the building are about 100 meters away
from each other. The entire network would then be connected to the internet.

1. Describe the type of Backbone network you would recommend, giving reasons. In your
answer describe the technology at each layer.

 Distributed Backbone - distributed backbone designed to separate network traffic

circulating on each individual LAN from the backbone network traffic by using access
devices such as routers and switches.

Characteristics of the distribution layer:

 Distribution layer devices control access to resources that are available at the core layer
and must therefore use bandwidth efficiently.

 In a campus environment, the distribution layer aggregates wiring closet bandwidth by

concentrating multiple low-speed access links into a high-speed core link and using
switches to segment workgroups and isolate network problems to prevent them from
affecting the core layer.

 This layer provides redundant connections for access devices. Redundant connections
also provide the opportunity to load-balance between devices.

 The distribution layer represents a routing boundary between the access and core layers
and is where routing and packet manipulation are performed.

 The distribution layer allows the core layer to connect diverse sites while maintaining
high performance. To maintain good performance in the core, the distribution layer can
redistribute between bandwidth-intensive access-layer routing protocols and optimized
core routing protocols. Route filtering is also implemented at the distribution layer.
 The distribution layer can summarize routes from the access layer to improve routing
protocol performance. For some networks, the distribution layer offers a default route to
access-layer routers and runs dynamic routing protocols only when communicating with
core routers.

2. Describe the choices you would make for each subsystem of structured cabling. Justify
your answer.
 Equipment Room (ER) serves as the demarc location for the building. It is the
transitional point from the voice, data and video building feeds to house cable running to
telecommunications closets. The main telecommunications closet contains electronic
equipment and can double as the telecommunications closet for the area of the building
around it.

3. What type of firewall design would you use? Justify your answer.

 Stateful inspection firewalls - Stateful inspection firewalls, in addition to verifying and

keeping track of established connections, also perform packet inspection to provide
better, more comprehensive security. They work by creating a state table with source IP,
destination IP, source port and destination port once a connection is established. They
create their own rules dynamically to allow expected incoming network traffic instead of
relying on a hardcoded set of rules based on this information. They conveniently drop
data packets that do not belong to a verified active connection.

4. Based on the type of Backbone recommended in question 1, describe the number of IP

subnets you would have and the address range for each subnet. Indicate whether you are
using IP version 4 or IP version 6.
 Ipv6 - IPv6 reduces the size of routing tables and makes routing more efficient and
hierarchical. In IPv6 networks, fragmentation is handled by the source device, rather than
a router, using a protocol for discovery of the path’s maximum transmission unit and
IPv6 contains no IP-level checksum, so the checksum does not need to be recalculated at
every router hop.a