MAKERERE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL

BACHELOR OF BUSINESS COMPUTING/BACHELOR OF OFFICE AND

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
ENTERPRISE NETWORK ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
ACADEMIC YEAR 2010/1011 SEMESTER 1
TAKE-HOME ASSIGNMENT

Instructions:
o Assignment should be carried out in groups of NOT MORE than 10.
o Assignment is due one month (1) from the date of issue.
o All members in the group are required to present their final report.
o All write up must be computer type set with clear illustrations in a
report form of not more than 15 pages.

NETWORK MANAGEMENT

Rwatamagufa School of Informatics comes up as one of the most brilliant

initiatives of the century. It is a symbol of success in a growing nation

Only last year on 1st January 2009 the new government of the republic
announced $110 million funding for the School’s next generation
research network- RSI*net 2. This document outlines a possible
architecture for that network as well as a research project whose
implementation will go over a ten year period in two distinct phases, 1
and 2.

The overall objective of the RSI*net 2 network (phase 2) is to build the

world’s first customer empowered optical IP network where users initially
at Gigapops, but eventually individual institutions and ultimately at
desktops will be able to purchase, setup and manage their own optical
wavelength networks. Using a setup and manage their own optical
wavelength networks, using a set of concepts called Web service (WS) and
object oriented networking (OON) this architecture will ensure massive
bandwidth interconnectivity to support applications in basic research
and such as advanced high performance distributed applications called
“grids” or “escience” that will be carried out not only between
Rwatamagufa School of Informatics Departments and research centres
but within our communities.

More significantly by using WS to manage optical networks, the network

elements and network functionality can be treated as simply another set
of services with a resource discovery process, communication and
nomenclature consistent and seamless with other web services. Thus
network services can be a seamless part of larger computational and peer
to peer grid projects.

The purpose of this discussion document is not to provide details on a

technology solution but outline the architectural framework for a
research program that will lead ultimately to customer ownership and
control of their own light paths across an optical infrastructure.

In phase I, The school, which brings together 3 semi independent

institutions, is to implement an integrated inter-campus network, to
enable efficient communication and sharing of resources between the
main campus and the 3 semi independent institutions located in
different regions of the country. This was contained in the school’s
strategic plan developed way back in December 2001, when the
Rwatamagufa School of Informatics was launched.

This will be an effort to improve the existing independent LANs at the

main campus as well as at each of the Institutions.

The main campus has a population of 10000 students and 250 staff
where as each of the colleges has an average of 120 students. The
current facilities include 12 computer labs with 30 computers each on an
independent network segment, 5 internet centres, several user
departments including the faculties and 15 administrative departments

The current network is quite inefficient and does not provide for full
integration of resources.

As a student of ENAM, you have been contracted as a consultant to

design an efficient intercampus network that enables full integration of
resources.

The Rwatamagufa School of Informatics is desired to implement e-

learning technologies with full multimedia integration and to automate
the main services like; admissions processing, registration, fees
payments, transcripts processing evaluation etc to its clients.

Additional data
 Design a suitable LAN for each of the labs and centres.
  Construct an illustration to show intercampus network layout as a
solution to the network problem through definition of requirements,
selection of devices, physical and logical assembly.
 Define specifications of network requirements, transmission media,
IP address and sub netting schemes.
 Illustrate Internet connectivity and choose a suitable ISP.
 Suggest measures for effective network administration.

Required
Draw a series of essential Network diagrams of your solution detailing
the following with clear specifications. Justify your recommendations

a) The LAN layouts

b) The internet work structure.
c) Network size
d) Addressing scheme; internet connectivity and choice of ISP
e) Network hardware
f) Network transmission media
g) Network software
h) Data management, transmission and sharing
i) Network administration and security policy
j) Intranet and extranet implementation

Hint:

Include all technical specifications in your diagrams, justify your

recommendations and be as creative in your solution as possible.

Prepare a 5 slide presentation to summarize your project and to support

your documentation.