Question 4 Case study task

In your role as a Solutions Architect at Riverina IT Solutions, you are leading a team of several system administrators. Riverina IT Solutions is a medium sized organisation and is currently expanding its operations. The company has acquired six sites across regional New South Wales to accommodate its various departments. You have been asked to design a network by utilizing 63.0.0.0 private IP address. The designed network should span six sites with a router at each site to interconnect the entire network. It is assumed that each site will have its own single subnet. Company expects approximately 1100 workstations across all the sites with approximate numbers in each building as follows:

Taiwo Oyekunle Wagga Office 300 workstations Taiwo Oyekunle Junee Office - 130 workstations Taiwo Oyekunle Albury Office - 125 workstations Taiwo Oyekunle Griffith Office - 120 workstations Taiwo Oyekunle Temora Office - 215 workstations Taiwo Oyekunle Culcairn Office - 150 workstations

TASK - Write a 600 words (+/- 10%) (Max) report explaining: NB; Growth rate is 3%

a. The detailed design of a simple addressing solution (with diagram(s) and step by step workout of the calculations) that leaves room for growth, is easy to administer and has the minimum wastage of available IP address space.

b. Explain what happens to your design if the number of hosts per network jumps to over 1,024 per building.