1. Network Proposal for Mountain Sky Elementary School
Network Solutions, Inc.
Katie Gotshall
Shane Neff
Todd Rowlett
Ryan Shaffer
Rachel Stull
Network Proposal for Mountain Sky Elementary School

2. Problem Statement
Students, teachers, and administrators need an easy to use, fast and secure access to the Internet, academic services available on the school’s intranet, and a central location in which to store the school system’s applications and student data.

3. Network Requirements 1000% LAN growth, 100% WAN
Only two protocols (TCP/IP and IPX)
Internet access to all nodes
School must have two distinct LANs
Internal and External Security
DHCP address assignment
Access Control Lists on routers

4. Project Constraints
Money
Time

5. School Physical Diagram

6. School Logical Diagram

7. MDF Logical

8. IDF 1 Physical

9. IDF Logical

10. District IP Addressing
The district will be assigned a Class C address.
The district will use Network Address Translation (NAT) to achieve a network
Subnet mask of yields 256 networks with over 65,000 host per network

11. Mountain Sky IP Addressing
Mountain Sky will be designated 3 networks of which one will be the connection to the district hub. All networks have a subnet mask.
—Student LAN
—Administrative LAN
—Connection to District Hub

12. Student LAN IP Addressing
Router Fiber Interface 1
MDF Student Switch
IDF 1 Trunked Switches
IDF 2 Trunked Switches
IDF 3 Trunked Switches
IDF 4 Trunked Switches
IDF 5 Trunked Switches
IDF 6 Trunked Switches
Student Host Range to
Classroom Printers to

13. Administrative LAN IP Addressing
Router Fiber Interface
MDF Admin. Switch
IDF 1 Switch
IDF 2 Switch
IDF 3 Switch
IDF 4 Switch
IDF 5 Switch
IDF 6 Switch
Admin. Host Range to

14. Access Control Lists (ACLs)

15. DHCP IP Address Assignment
A DHCP server will be used to assign IP addresses for both students and administrators.
The administrators’ range of IP addresses will be defined as ‘statically automatic’ meaning each machine will receive the same address each time
This will allow for the DHCP to also function as an application server and lessen the burden placed on the school’s IT staff

16. IPX Addressing Scheme
The IPX addressing scheme will use the subnet portion of the IP address for the host address and the MAC address of the host belonging to that network as the host portion of the address.

17. Mountain Sky Project Timeline

18. Cost of Implementation
Equipment: $100,132.24
Installation: $350,000 
Training: $100,000
Consulting: $596,000 (1 senior consultant, 2 junior consultants, 1 project manager, 1 site manager)
Project Total: $1,146,132.24

19. Questions?
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