The hotel has a class C public address space. The network number is [login to view URL] The hotel
provides a number of eatery, office, accommodation and conference like services. This particular
organization would like to claim that all facilities have access to the Internet.
The Hotel has the following features.
1. 90 hotel rooms which have access to the Internet, spread over 5 floors (that is five floors of
hotel rooms). Each room is to have one fixed Ethernet interface. Please note on each floor
there is a hotel room which has got an attached bedroom. That room will also require a fixed
Ethernet connection.
2. Each floor consisting of hotel rooms has a rack in a communications closet – there is a
suitable riser between floors.
3. A large conference room capable of housing up to 15 fixed users is located the ground floor.
Fixed networking is required in this room.
4. The owners of the hotel recommend supporting up to 200 wireless users concurrently. Users
of such facilities should have access to the Internet through out all floors of the hotel.
5. The hotel has a small office that manages reservations and the hotel’s programs/ facilities.
There are no more than 20 people in these offices (very crowded) requiring access to the
Internet. These offices are situated on the ground floor and are directly attached to the
Administrative Offices.
6. The hotel wishes to have Internet functionality in the lobby bar providing customers with
access to the Internet. There would be no more than 5 concurrent customers – these are built
into the tables adjacent to the concierge desks.
7. The concierge and reception tables will require at least 3 network connections each.
8. The hotel also wishes to have machine room. The machine room would have no more than 16
hosts and is situated on the ground floor in the communications room.
9. Your carrier gives you a high end DSL (perhaps a Juniper) router that advertises your network
to the rest of the world. The external interface of your router will be bound to an address,
which you nominate from your address space. The internal interface of the router should
connect directly to your routing core. You not need to worry about routing from the outside
world’s perspective. But you will need to worry about routing for your entire internal network.
You should advise your infrastructure that the public interface is you default gateway.
A basic floor plan is attached in a separate file.
You now know what the hotel requires in terms of connectivity. Using this partial specification,
proposes a structure for the network to be used by the hotel. Your design of the network should
describe the infrastructure you have and how it is connected from both a Layer 1 perspective. Some of
the considerations to address include:
1. Do have switches on each floor?
2. How will these switches be connected to one another?
3. What kind of switches do you plan to use?
4. What media will you use to connect edge devices to the switches and/or routers?
5. What kind of routers will you use?
6. How many interfaces will they have of what type?
7. How will you distribute the cabling up the floors of the building and within the floors?
8. What components will you need in addition to the switches and routers required?
I m ready to take up this project. I have 10+ years of experience in networking with CCNA, CCNP, CCDP and JNCIA certifications. Please reach me to discuss further on this.