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Design of an Enterprise Network

Infrastructure of a City
Mehzabul Hoque Nahid1
Lecturer, Department of MIS, American International University-Bangladesh, Dhaka1

Abstract: A basic Network infrastructure allude to the resources like hardware and software of an entire network that
let network connectivity, communication, operations and control of an enterprise network of a city, industries or home.
Enterprise network infrastructure provides the communication path and services between users, processes, applications,
services and external networks. The main objective of this research paper is to design a hierarchal enterprise network
design of a city with consideration network enterprise edge. Cisco packet Tracer latest version was used to design &
simulate this design. Using Cisco packet tracer we can simulate application layer protocols, basic routing with RIP,
OSPF and EIGRP. Our design consist three locations in Dhaka, Bangladesh: Data center, Banani Branch & Motijheel
Branch.
Keywords: LAN/WAN, OSI Model, Network Switch, Cisco Packet Tracer, Internet Cloud.

I. INTRODUCTION- ENTERPRISE NETWORK

The main purpose of an enterprise network is to reduce
isolated users and workgroups. All systems should be
capable of communicate and provide and desired
information. Additionally, physical systems and devices
should be able to maintain and provide satisfactory
performance, reliability and security. Enterprise
computing models are developed for this purpose,
facilitating the exploration and improvement of
established enterprise communication protocols and
strategies. In scope, an enterprise network may include
local and wide area networks (LAN/WAN), depending on
operational and departmental requirements [1]. An
enterprise network can integrate all systems, including
Windows and Apple computers and operating systems
(OS), UNIX systems, mainframes and related devices like
smart phones and tablets. A tightly integrated enterprise Figure 1: Basic Diagram of an Enterprise Network
network effectively combines and uses different device
and system communication protocols. A typical Enterprise network includes:

Enterprise network consists of various network segments Networking Hardware:

and configurations that enable the enterprise to generate o Routers
revenue in todays highly connected, dynamic o Switches
environment. The enterprise network itself consists of o LAN cards
various business site types that must be interconnected in o Wireless routers
order to enable business and revenues. The corporate LAN o Cables
and data centre are at the core of the enterprise network.
These sites provide a bulk of the enterprise support, Networking Software:
applications, and business enablers. The enterprise o Network operations and management
network is the sum of the configurations and design of the o Operating systems
interconnections between the data centre and corporate o Firewall
headquarters and the rest of the enterprise. The enterprise o Network security applications
remote sites can consist of various campus environments
as well as small offices, revenue gateways, and other Network services:
remote locations. The enterprise network is often designed o T-1 Line
to provide dedicated interconnection with partners, home- o DSL
based workers, and other support resources. This is the key o Satellite
to the solution as it provides the backbone over which o Wireless protocols
most enterprise traffic travels. o IP addressing

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II. DATA CENTRE network hubs, a network switch forwards data only to one
A data centre is a facility used to house computer systems or multiple devices that need to receive it, rather than
and associated components, such as telecommunications broadcasting the same data out of each of its ports. A
and storage systems. It generally includes redundant or network switch is a multiport network bridge that uses
backup power supplies, redundant data communications hardware addresses to process and forward data at the data
connections, environmental controls and various security link layer (layer 2) of the OSI model [4]. Switches can
devices. Large data centres are industrial scale operations also process data at the network layer (layer 3) by
using as much electricity as a small town. Data centres additionally incorporating routing functionality that most
have their roots in the huge computer rooms of the early commonly uses IP addresses to perform packet
ages of the computing industry [2]. Early computer forwarding; such switches are commonly known as layer-3
systems were complex to operate and maintain, and switches or multilayer switches. Beside most commonly
required a special environment in which to operate. Many used Ethernet switches, they exist for various types of
cables were necessary to connect all the components and networks, including Fiber Channel, Asynchronous
methods to accommodate and organize these were Transfer Mode.
devised, such as standard racks to mount equipment, The network switch plays an integral part in most modern
raised floors, and cable trays. Also, a single mainframe Ethernet local area networks (LANs). Mid-to-large sized
required a great deal of power, and had to be cooled to LANs contain a number of linked managed switches [5].
avoid overheating. Security was important because Small office/home office applications typically use a
computers were expensive, and were often used for single switch, or an all-purpose converged device such as
military purposes. a residential gateway to access small office/home
broadband services such as DSL or cable Internet. In most
The main purpose of a data center is running the IT
of these cases, the end-user device contains a router and
systems applications that handle the core business and
components that interface to the particular physical
operational data of the organization. Such systems may be
broadband technology [6]. User devices may also include
proprietary and developed internally by the organization,
a telephone interface for Voice over IP (VoIP) protocol.
or bought from enterprise software vendors. Such common
applications are ERP and CRM systems [3]. A data center
may be concerned with just operations architecture or it
may provide other services as well. Data centers are also
used for offsite backups. Companies may subscribe to
backup services provided by a data center. This is often
used in conjunction with backup tapes. Backups can be
taken off servers locally on to tapes. However, tapes stored
on site pose a security threat and are also susceptible to
fire and flooding. Larger companies may also send their
backups off site for added security. This can be done by
backing up to a data center. Encrypted backups can be sent Figure 3: Network Switch
over the Internet to another data center where they can be An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical
stored securely. label assigned to each device participating in a computer
network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.
An IP address serves two principal functions: host or
network interface identification and location addressing.
The designers of the Internet Protocol defined an IP
address as a 32-bit number and this system, known as
Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), is still in use today.
However, because of the growth of the Internet and the
predicted depletion of available addresses, a new version
of IP , using 128 bits for the address, was developed in
1995.IPv6 was standardized as RFC 2460 in 1998, and its
deployment has been ongoing since the mid-2000s .

IV. DESIGN & SIMULATION PROTOTYPE

Our Design fully demonstrated by cisco packet tracer.
Figure 2: Data Center Packet tracer is a program used to illustrate at a basic level
how network work. Packet tracer has two different views-
III. SWITCHES: IP ADDRESSES Logical workspace & Physical workspace. It has two
A network switch is a computer networking device that modes of operation-Real time mode & Simulation mode.
connects devices together on a computer network, by
using packet switching to receive, process and forward Figure 4 describe Data centre model. In this model two pc,
data to the destination device. Unlike less advanced three server-HTTP server, TFTP server & NTP server.

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Type IP
DNS Server 4.2.2.2/24
Mail Server 4.2.2.3/24
Web Server 4.2.2.4/24

Figure 6: Two branches

Figure 4: Data centre For Figure 6, the right side is motijheel branch & left side
is Banani branch .Actually these two branches are just
One switch model 2980-24TT used to connect all of them. models including pc, laptop, and Router, Switch and
Router 2811 used to connect data centre, branch & internet DHCP server. All these locations are connected through a
cloud. frame relay switch. The Data Centre is connected to the
ISP to get to the simulated Internet (it is a 4.2.2.0/24
Data centre configuration is straight forward network).
configuration. There is no VTP here, no STP, and Use the
same EIGRP routing protocol. Configure the serial V. IP CONFIGURATION USED IN DESIGN
interface that will connect to the ISP with the IP address Switches IP Addresses
68.110.171.134/30.
Configure IP addresses for the switches (which will be
IP for Port: in VLAN 1, subnet 172.16.1.0/24). Their default
Serial0/1/168.110.171.133/30 gateway will be 172.16.1.254
Serial0/1/0 55.55.55.57/30
VTP & VLANS
Configure the ports connected between the switches to
trunk ports. Create VLANs 30 and 40 on one switch,
name them DATA1 and DATA2 respectively.
Configure the VTP domain "BB" on the switch.
VLAN Name Status Ports
10 VOICE_WB active
30 DATA1_WB active Fa0/5, Fa0/6
40 DATA2_WB active Fa0/2, Fa0/3, Fa0/4, Fa0/7

STP & Router

Configure its Fast Ethernet port on the VLAN 40 subnet
Figure 5: Internet cloud and configure the port on the switch on VLAN 40.
Internet Cloud provide users and enterprises with various ip dhcp pool FORVLAN40
capabilities to store and process their data in third-party network 172.16.40.0 255.255.255.0
data centres. It relies on sharing of resources to achieve default-router 172.16.40.254
coherence and economies of scale, similar to a utility over dns-server 4.2.2.2
a network. At the foundation of cloud computing is the ip dhcp pool FORVLAN10_VOICE
broader concept of converged infrastructure and shared network 172.16.10.0 255.255.255.0
services [7]. default-router 172.16.10.254
Also, straight forward; configure static IPs to the servers option 150 ip 172.16.10.254
and all that. But again, do NOT configure a routing
protocol on the router. Instead, just configure a static route VI. CONCLUSION
to the 68.110.171.132/30 network going through the ISP The process of designing a good network requires
router. concerted efforts by network designers and technicians,

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who identify network requirements and select the best

solutions to meet the needs of a business. The four
fundamental technical requirements of network design are
scalability, availability, security, and Manageability. Our
Purpose is to just design an enterprise network only for
software based not practically.

The main Purpose of this paper is:

Enterprise network design overview.
The benefits of enterprise network.
New design methodology

Besides advantages there are some limitations of

enterprise network like:
Bandwidth
Encryption
Everything in HTTP[S]
NAT, proxies, tunnelling
Carrier-grade NAT/IPv4 islands
Lack of knowledge of policy and assets
Legal restrictions

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The author gratefully acknowledges his wife Adrita Sania
Zaman for her assistance in simulation and figure drawing
for this paper.

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BIOGRAPHY
Mehzabul Hoque Nahid is a lecturer
of Management Information System
department at American International
University-Bangladesh. He has
obtained his Masters of Information
Technology degree from Swinburne
University of Technology Australia in
2011. He completed his bachelor degree from American
international university Bangladesh (AIUB) in 2007. His
research interests include E-commerce, data mining,
professional issues in IT, human computer interaction,
knowledge management, network management, network
modeling and simulation.

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