Designing a Network Corporate Writing

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Network Requirements

With the acquisition of a newly leased building, UMUC requires a new network. The network includes coverage for the following places: six (6) instructional computer labs, a student computer lab, six (6) various offices, an admission office, library, and five (5) general classrooms. The network should encompass the following devices with respect to location:

Each computer lab should have 22 computers. The network should allocate 21 computers for students and one computer for each instructor. The network should allocate a collective total of 132 computers, given the requirement of six total instructional labs.

The student computer lab requires 31 computers.

The network should allocate one computer for each of the six various offices-six computers in total.

The admission office requires five computers.

The library requires 15 computers, 10 for students and 5 for faculty.

Five individual classrooms each require a computer.

Network IP Addresses

Each device of the network must have a unique IP address. Reese (2015) writes, "In a network, every device must have its own unique IP address. That is every network device (printer, server, router, etc.) must be identified with a separate IP address."Reese (2015) explains, "With IP addresses, an organization is assigned a unique IP network, such as 192.168.1.0, but a single IP address must be assigned for each network device." For example, Device 1 (router) and Device 2 (office printer) would respectively have IP addresses, 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 (Reese, 2015).

Network IP Address Schematic

The following table provides the IP address ranges for the 194 computers that comprise the network.
This network design assigns a sequential IP address within the designated IP address range.

Device Location & Designation

Start of IP range

End of IP range

Sequential IP examples within range

Labs 1, 2,3,4,5 & 6 instructor

10.11.0.0.1

10.11.0.0.6

10.11.0.0.1, 10.11.0.0.2,10.11.0.0.3

Lab 1 students

10.11.0.0.7

10.11.0.0.27

10.11.0.0.7, 10.11.0.0.8, 10.11.0.0.9

Lab 2 students

10.11.0.0.28

10.11.0.0.48

10.11.0.0.28, 10.11.0.0.29, 10.11.0.0.30

Lab 3 students

10.11.0.0.49

10.11.0.0.69

10.11.0.0.49, 10.11.0.0.50, 10.11.0.0.51

Lab 4 students

10.11.0.0.70

10.11.0.0.90

10.11.0.0.70, 10.11.0.0.71, 10.11.0.0.72

Lab 5 students

10.11.0.0.91

10.11.0.0.111

10.11.0.0.91, 10.11.0.0.92, 10.11.0.0.93

Lab 6 students

10.11.0.0.112

10.11.0.0.132

10.11.0.0.112, 10.11.0.0.113, 10.11.0.0.114

Library staff

10.11.0.0.133

10.11.0.0.137

10.11.0.0.133, 10.11.0.0.134, 10.11.0.0.135

Library student

10.11.0.0.138

10.11.0.0.147

10.11.0.0.138, 10.11.0.0.139, 10.11.0.0.140

classrooms A, B, C, D, E staff

10.11.0.0.148

10.11.0.0.152

10.11.0.0.148, 10.11.0.0.149, 10.11.0.0.150

Subnet Mask

A subnet mask corresponds to one of the following numerical codes: 255.255.255.0, 255.255.0.0, 255.0.0.0 (Reese, 2015). The network design determines the selection of the subnet mask. For instance, class C addresses have "a number from 192 to 223 in the first octet." The corresponding subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. "The number 255 indicates that the corresponding section of the address is part of the network address. The 0 indicates that the corresponding section is the host portion of the address (Reese, 2015)."

For the Network and IP address of 10.11.0.0, the subnet mask is 255.255.0.0, over a IP class A (0.0.0.0 to 127.255.255.255). Following is a summary of the network address details.

IP Address: 10.11.0.0

Netmask: 255.255.0.0

Wildcard Mask: 0.0.255.255

CIDR Notation: /.....

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