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Network Expansion
American Intercontinental University Online
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Unit 1 – Individual Project 1
Phase 1
The first phase of Jan and Kim Levering’s IT consulting business expansion will consist of the
following floor plan for the new office.
1 Receptionist Area
2 Offices, (one for Jan and one for Kim)
1 conference room
15 cubical for consultants
1 computer room
The current network will be moved and installed in the new building. This network consists of
the following equipment.
8 windows XP systems
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1 in Jan’s office
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1 in Kim’s office
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6 in the cubes
1 windows server 2008 in computer room
1 printer in computer room
The following diagram shows the connectivity between equipment in the new office floor plan.
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This network will be implemented with the addition of two new layer-2 switches, a 48
port switch to connect the workstations, and an 8 port switch for printer connectivity. The two
separate switches will be set up in their own broadcast domain and subnets. The first subnet will
be for the XP workstations and will be assigned the 192.168.0.0 / 24 class C subnet. The second
subnet will be for the printers and they will be assigned the 192.168.1.0 / 24 class C subnet. Both
of the subnet networks will use the 255.255.255.0 (/24) subnet mask and the supernet that will be
used to encompass both of the subnets will be the 192.168.0.0 / 23 network. In addition, the
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Windows 2008 Server will be set up to work as the router for the network and will regulate the
traffic between the workstations and printer. This will require the server to have dual NIC cards,
one for each of the switches on the network (Mir, 2007). The server will also require two IP
addresses to act as default gateways for the subnets, these IP addresses will be 192.168.0.201 and
192.168.1.201.
The administrator will also need to access the properties of the LAN NIC cards and
configure the IP addresses on the workstations and printers. This is done through the Windows
Control Panel as follows.
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One the administrator has opened up the LAN Properties, they will need to select the Internet
Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and then click on the properties button to configure the IP
address, subnet mask, and default gateway for the host.
