DEVELOPING IDEAS
Design Specifications: (Fill in the below table.)
Design Specification Criteria For Success
Aesthetics The cables and the routers Runaway lighting, strobe
will be well hidden so the lights, backstage lighting
staff and the models
wouldn’t trip over. The
overall aspect of the
building will be simple.
Cost The efficiency and the Our product will use
quality of the network $60,000. Even though
should be worth the it’s costly, the cables
price. But our chosen would be good quality. It
maximum price should would be secured and
be $150,000. This reliable.
should allow our
building to be well
secured.
Customer The manager comes in We will provide the
& requests for the map event with a plan that
out of the building. So consists of reliable
far everybody is using service, high speed, a
wifi dongles. Be that as stable network and a
it may, the wifi dongles network that is efficient
are very valuable and and in the long run, will
aren’t reliable. The be cheaper than WiFi
feature is poor and the dongles.
connection is slow.
Environmental Copper cabling We are going to make
considerations produces radiation. sure that the cables can
be recycled and the
The networking system copper cables will be
requires a lot of shielded with plastic in
materials such as order to minimise the
plastic to shield cables radiation.
and metals (led and
zinc) which are found
within electronic
devices
The network needs to The system needs to
have reliable and have a fast data
Function
improved data transmission speed.
communications with There needs to be a
the building. router with an embedded
firewall.
Materials The materials should We have incorporated
meet the basic the basic needs for our
requirements needed. system including a
The wires should be switch, wire, hub, router.
bendable & safe. We’ve made sure that
the copper cables would
be ductile, lustrous,
strong & safe.
Safety Incoming traffic needs Firewall is embedded in
to be filtered to obstruct the router to block
illicit and unwanted unauthorized traffic.
traffic.
Cables will be stationed
Managing cabling to within the walls and roof
avoid accidents due to to avoid accidents.
tripping and tangling.
Access control not All data will be stored in
every user should have file server to prevent
access to the network accidental loss of data
in order to keep out
ability attackers.
Size The model of the The model cannot take
building would be up a huge amount of
scaled to size. space as the cables will
need to stand out. 8
In this section you have to develop a number of designs for your solution
(network plan). These designs need to be explained and annotated so
that they can be easily understood by others. You can do these designs on
a computer, or draw your own designs on paper.