Small Office Network Design
Alban, M.J., Bathan, P.E., Bautista, J.K.,
Batangas State University Main Campus II - Alangilan, Batangas City
Electronics Engineering Program
25 May 2019
Abstract – A network design was made for
a small student center office that consists
of three departments namely the cashier,
assessment, and registrar departments.
Cisco Packet Tracer is used while having
the following considerations: economical,
scalability, security and redundancy.
I. OBJECTIVES
 Develop network designs that are
economic, scalable, secured, and
redundant.
 Document a paper that includes
floor plans, network topology, cost
analysis, IP address, planning and
configurations.
 Simulate the design using packet
tracer.
II. INTRODUCTION
In proposing a network design for a
small office, a customer or client must look
for the economic, security, redundancy and
scalability factors of the design. To test the
functionality of a design, one can use a a
software called Cisco Packet Tracer.
Cisco Packet Tracer is a network
simulator that can be utilized in training for
Network certifications such as CompTia
Network+ and Cisco CCENT or CCNA
Certification Exams. The software allows
students to create virtual networks with
many different networking devices from
switches, routers, end user devices and
even systems integration devices such as
security cameras, motion sensors, lights,
and alarms. [1]
To assign IP addresses in a
network, subnetting must be done. One
good way of subnetting is using Variable-
Length Subnet Masking (VLSM).
VLSM amounts to "subnetting
subnets," which means that VLSM allows
network engineers to divide an IP address
space into a hierarchy of subnets of
different sizes, making it possible to create
subnets with very different host counts
without wasting large numbers of
addresses.[2]
There are several methods to use in
order to secure the network design. First, it
must start on secure login or using SSH or
Secure Shell. Another one is using
switchport-port security codes and
configurations.
III. MATERIALS AND
METHODOLOGY
Materials:
 Packet Tracer
 Smart Draw Floor Plan Maker
Procedures:
 Planning stage:

1. Plan the type of small office to design

and the corresponding departments in that
office.

2. Assign how many hosts are needed per

department.

Construction/designing stage:

3. Develop at a floorplan.

4. Develop the network topology.

Figure 1: Overall Floorplan Design
Configuring Stage:

5. Subnet the given network starting from
the department with the largest number of
host.
6. Assign the IP addresses on the network
topology.
The overall floorplan design
consists of three departments namely the
cashier, registrar and accounting sections.
There is also break room that includes a
mini kitchen. The whole dimension is
8.93m x 6.96 m.

7. Configure each links, departments,

hosts, switches and routers with the
appropriate codes that will fit the required
considerations.

Testing Stage:

8. Test the functionality of the network

design using ping command between he
InterVLANs.

IV. RESULTS AND SIMULATIONS Figure 2: Floorplan with Grounding Layout

Results:

This floorplan has grounding layout

indicated by yellow lines.
 Cashier Department has 5 hosts; 3
PCs and 2 printer.

Figure 3: Registrar Department

Creative/Production Department
has 5 hosts; 3 PCs and 2 printer. Figure 6: Overall Network Design
Topology

Table 1 Overall Network Design Addresses

Department VLAN IP Address Range
Registrar 10 192.168.10.0-10.7
/29

192.168.10.8-
10.11 /30

Figure
4: Assessment Department Assessment 20 192.168.20.0-20.7
/29
Sales/Finance Department has 5
hosts; 3 PCs and 2 printer. 192.168.20.8-
20.11 /30

Cashier 30 192.168.30.0-30.7
/29

192.168.30.8-
30.11 /29

Left 192.168.1.1 /30

Etherchannel
Link
Right 192.168.1.2 /30
Etherchannel
Figure 5: Cashier Department Link
 Item Qua Price per
Simulation:
Description ntit Unit
y
Cisco 1 P15650 P15650
CISCO1941/ .00
K9 1941
256M Router
Acer Aspire 9 P21999 P13199
TC-730 Intel 4.00
Pentium
J4205/2GB/5
00GB/Win10
w/ 18.5-in
WS- 1 P299750 P29975
C2960G- 0.00
48TC-L –
Cisco Cataly
st 2960 48
10/100/1000,
4 T/SFP
LAN Base
image
Dell 6 P8695 P20700
(C1760NW) .00
Color Laser
Printer Max
Resolution
(B&W) 600
dpi and
(Color) 600
dpi Plain
Paper Print
LAN Cable 17 P268 P4556.
(15m) 00
Total Cost: P53864
7.00
 For redundancy, switch to router
etherchannel was configured to prevent
system failure.

VI. RECOMMENDATION

To have a more secured network

aside from switch port security, adding
firewall is a much better choice to prevent
unauthorized access from other networks.

In addition, using a 48-port switch

is also recommended since it can cover
more number of hosts. However, Packet
Tracer does not have a 48-port switch
installed so consider using two 24-port
switch.

VII. REFERENCES

[1] https://www.udemy.com/cisco-packet-
V. CONCLUSION tracer-network-simulator-introduction/

[2]
A small student center office
https://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definit
network design was developed using
ion/variable-length-subnet-mask
SmartDraw floorplan and packet tracer
configuration where dimensions and
the costing of equipment are taken into
VII. APPENDICES
consideration.
CODES USED:
The design is economical and
scalable since VLSM or classless Switch(config-if-range)#vlan 10
subnetting is used, it creates subnets
without wasting large numbers of Switch(config-vlan)#name Registrar
addresses. Thus, only one 24- port
Switch(config-vlan)#vlan 20
switch is used to cover all the hosts in
the network so no switch-port will be Switch(config-vlan)#name Assessment
wasted.
Switch(config-vlan)#vlan 30
In terms of security, switch port-
security were configured with Switch(config-vlan)#name Cashier
maximum port set to 1, mac address
Switch(config)#int range f0/3-7
sticky and violation protect strict. Also,
SSH is also configured to support Switch(config-if-range)#sw mo access
secure login. (password:cisco)
Switch(config-if-range)#sw access vlan 10
Switch(config-vlan)#int range f0/8-12
Switch(config-if-range)#sw mo access
Switch(config-if-range)#sw access vlan 20
Switch(config-if-range)#int range f0/13-17
Switch(config-if-range)#sw mo acc
Switch(config-if-range)#sw acc vlan 30
Switch(config-if-range)#int range f0/1-24
Switch(config-if-range)#channel-group 1
mode desirable
Creating a port-channel interface Port-
channel 1
Switch(config-if-range)#int port-channel 1
Switch(config-if)#sw mo tr
Switch(config-if-range)#no sh
Switch(config-if-range)#exit

Router(config)#int port-channel 1
Switch(config)#int range f0/3-24 Router(config-if)#ip add 192.168.1.1
Switch(config-if-range)#sw mo acc 255.255.255.0

Switch(config-if-range)#sw port-security Router(config-if)#no sh

Switch(config-if-range)#sw port-security Router(config-if)#exit

Switch(config-if-range)#sw port-security Router(config)#int g0/0

max 1
Switch(config-if-range)#sw
mac-address sticky
Switch(config-if-range)#sw
violation ?
Router(config-if)#no sh
port-security Router(config-if)#channel-group 1
Router(config-if)#exit
port-security
Router(config)#int g0/1

protect Security violation protect mode Router(config-if)#no sh

restrict Security violation restrict mode Router(config-if)#exit

shutdown Security violation shutdown

mode

Switch(config-if-range)#sw port-security
violation restrict

Switch(config)#int range f0/1-2

Switch(config-if-range)#sw mo tr