BMIS 520 - IT Infrastructure

OVERVIEW In this project, you will study performance improvements in a congested, wired LAN/WAN environment that can be solved to varying degrees by a new IT infrastructure design and fully functional implementation in Packet Tracer. To learn more about Packet Tracer please read the Cisco Packet Tracer DS PDF. Later, in Phase II of the project, you will scale this design to a larger enterprise IT infrastructure. To begin the projects, you will complete a review of related literature to identify what is appropriate to improve system feasibility, RAS (reliability, availability, serviceability), security, and disaster recovery of the existing IT infrastructure and model of your hospital. Once this review of literature is complete, you will use the outcomes and research results to advance and improve the IT infrastructure. Proper data analysis, comparison, and contrast will be summarized within in-text tables and figures as well as appendixes to explain the results of the IT infrastructure re-design and improvement. Packet Tracer is limited given it is a simulator. Be creative! For instance, if Packet Tracer does not have a file sharing service for a file sharing server, turn on any other related and relevant services that are available. As another example, use LAN and WAN protocols that are optimal given what the version of Packet Tracer allows. You will be assessed based upon optimal configurations in the version of Packet Tracer used. Thus, assure this is well studied. Research will outline new opportunities for future IT infrastructure designs, and this should be discussed accordingly in the written paper even if not configured in Packet Tracer. Often, new technologies are not implemented in industry immediately due to limitations such as hardware architecture. Please verify all requirements are met by reviewing the grading rubric. Below is an outline of minimum requirements with examples and ideas. INSTRUCTIONS Minimum Project Requirements ? Submit a working Packet Tracer lab, typically this file has a .pkt file extension. o This will include the fully operational new IT infrastructure design o All devices in the lab must be named with your first name and last name ? Example: Jane_Doe_Router_1 o All hardware and software should be configured properly and should be able to communicate using optimized networking designs, configurations, and protocols o No devices should have passwords for assessment purposes Minimum IT Infrastructure Design and Packet Tracer Requirements  You must start with a blank/new Packet Tracer file, existing labs or modified labs of existing solutions will receive a zero without exception Design a medium-size hospital IT infrastructure for well over 1,000 devices, and scalable beyond the Figure 1 exampleFor example, a design that goes beyond traditional N-Tier designs  Design proper addressing via IPv4 and/or IPv6 that scales  Add appropriate routers and switches to support this new design  Configure at least one appropriate networking protocol, operational across the entire infrastructure BMIS 520 Page 3 of 4 Use proper network address translation (NAT) Implement private and public IP address spaces correctly Assure network traffic is organized, efficient, and secured properly (e.g. limit broadcast domains, do not allow marketing employees to access accounting systems, etc)  Add an Internet Service Provider (ISP) into the design  Add enough modularity, resiliency, and flexibility into the designDesign and implement the following new services and servers  A Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server that automatically assigns working IP addresses to new workstations  A name server that manages the Domain Name System (DNS) for all servers in the hospital  A web server hosted on the Inte