I would devise an intelligent hub that would have enhanced capacities for other features such as remote management capability.
Switches are an addition o hubs and would also provide this prospective network with support capacities such as multiple bandwidths, bridge functionality, and router functionality.
I will install a bridge that will filter data packets according to their various addresses. This will forward only the appropriate packages to the relent address. The packet moves on if it does not belong. This function seperates the various files and ensures that each receives its correct one without clogging up the system. It also provides data security so that each receives only that which he is permitted to have access to. Bridges help th traffic. They require, however, that network managers install and update their list of addresses.
Routers are also an inescapable piece of my network. The router does many of the above functions reading the destination address for information, examining the contents of each packet, and establishing the most efficient path. All of this is performed by routing protocols.
I will use dynamic routing whereby the router will be able to automatically reconfigure its information table. It will be able to recalculate the lowest-cost path in terms of load, line delay, or bandwidth. I may even have one that will be able to rebalance the traffic load across multiple links. I will use the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) as routing protocol.
Routers are slower than bridge but provide better security. I may therefore use bridges and routers in conjunction. If I had to choose between one or the other, I would prefer the router even though its far more expensive and difficult to maintain. They also provide network management overhead.
I will want to prevent unauthorized entry of suspicious...
To that end, my solution will be to introduce software at a central site and distribute it throughout the network. In this way, all have access to the same software that is located at a central region.
To ensure safe file location, I will also keep files safe in a central location whilst directing files in use to the local workstation.
In order to ascertain that there is no multiple configuration of more than one file at a time by multiple users, configuration settings can be stored in a central station and will be available suer when he logs on from his workstation.
Since network hardware changes all the time, I will program the system with the ability to recognize new systems and to update automatically as the hardware changes. Of course, frequent checking is required.
A firewall will be installed for both security and to prevent clogging, crashing of system, and in order to control the traffic between network and Internet.
The network too will be designed with centralized management in mind so that the network can be controlled from a focal region monitoring issues such as version control, security, and diagnosing failures.
Finally, a significant part of my work will be to make the pieces of the network as similar as possible by using protocol standards in order to do so. I will do this to ensure compatibility, but will first ascertain that the hub suites all the management needs of the organization. And of that particular set of network. I will use a Hybrid network so that the standard can be changed when necessary.
To monitor and keep on assessing function of my LAN, I will build test points into it. This will also make maintenance far easier. The network management software must be written carefully and tested thoroughly to ensure that network management systems are highly reliable
