You are the IT Manager Working for a Hotel Chain: Case Study Assignment, MDIS, Singapore

Case:

You are the IT manager working for a hotel chain. The hotel provides the floor as shown in the appendix. The hotel has a class C public address space. The network number is 198.200.135.0/24. The hotel provides a number of eateries, office, accommodation, and conference like services. They would like to claim that all facilities have access to the Internet.

The Hotel has the following features.

• 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 also requires a fixed Ethernet connection.
• Each floor consists of hotel rooms has a rack in a communications closet – there is a suitable riser between floors.
• A large conference room capable of housing up to 15 fixed users is located on the ground floor. Fixed networking is required in this room.
• The owners of the hotel recommend supporting up to 200 wireless users concurrently. Users of such facilities should have access to the Internet throughout all floors of the hotel.

• 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 requiring access to the Internet. These offices are situated on the ground floor and are directly attached to the Administrative
• 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.
• The concierge and reception tables will require at least 3 network connections each.
• The hotel also wishes to have a machine room. The machine room would have no more than 16 hosts and is situated on the ground floor in the communications room.
• The hotel has a server acting as web, email, and file server. The server has dual RJ45 ports with 100TB storage capacity. It is serving around 50 staff concurrently. The management would like to explore a 10GB connection.

Your carrier gives you a high-end 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.