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Week 3 Overview of Analysis, Architecture, and Design Processes

The document outlines the processes of network analysis, architecture, and design within the Faculty of Computing and Informatics. It emphasizes the importance of understanding user needs and network behavior to inform architecture decisions, as well as providing physical details for network design. Additionally, it discusses performance metrics such as capacity, delay, reliability, maintainability, and availability.

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Week 3 Overview of Analysis, Architecture, and Design Processes

The document outlines the processes of network analysis, architecture, and design within the Faculty of Computing and Informatics. It emphasizes the importance of understanding user needs and network behavior to inform architecture decisions, as well as providing physical details for network design. Additionally, it discusses performance metrics such as capacity, delay, reliability, maintainability, and availability.

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Faculty of Computing and Informatics

Department of Computer Sciences

Network Design and Management

Edward Nepolo
Faculty of Computing and Informatics
Department of Computer Sciences

Discussion Objectives
1. Overview of Analysis, Architecture, and Design Processes

Disclaimer: These notes are study guidelines only. Students are advised
to study from the recommended textbooks.
Networking Roles
Analysis
Analysis
Network analysis entails learning what users, their applications, and
devices need from the network.

- Understanding network behavior under various situations.

- Defines, determines, and describes relationships among users,


applications, devices, and networks.

- Provides the foundation for all the architecture and design decisions
to follow.

The purpose of network analysis is to first, to listen to users and


understand their needs; and second, to understand the infrastructure.
Analysis
Develop requirements and traffic flows, as well as
mappings of users, applications, and devices, to
address the problem statements and objectives.

In the process we compile information that will


be used in developing the architecture and
design.
Network Architecture
Network architecture uses the information from
the analysis process to develop a conceptual,
end-to-end structure for the network.
Network Architecture
- Technology Preferences
- Topology Preferences
- Relationships between functions
Routing, Network Management,
Performance, Security
- Equipment and vender selection
- Focusing on finding the best candidates for
architecture and design.
Design
Provides physical detail to the architecture.
It is the target of our work, the peak of analysis and
architecture processes.
Physical detail includes blueprints and drawings of
the network; selections of vendors and service
providers;
Analysis
Users
Internet for mobile
devices
WiFi for guests
Security

Applications
Remote Access to emails
Seamless Access to
documents

Devices
Automated Backup
Remote Management
Architecture

Backup

Guest
DC

Desktop
Mobile
User
User
Design

100Gbps WPA2 10Mbps

192.168.10.0/24

100Gbps

192.168.20.0/24 Guest
DC
Cat6 1Gbps

RADIUS EAP Auth


30Mbps

Desktop
Mobile
User
User
Projection Plan
Performance Matrices
Capacity - A measure of the system’s ability to transfer data.
Bandwidth.

Delay - a measure of the time difference in the sending of


information across the system. In its most basic sense, delay
is the time difference in sending a single unit of information
(bit, byte, cell, frame, or packet) from source to destination.
Propagation delay
Queuing delay
Transmission delay
Processing delay
Performance Matrices
Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability

Reliability - indicator of the frequency of failure of the


network and its components and represents the
unscheduled outages of service.

Maintainability - measure of the time to restore the


system to fully operational after failure.

Availability - the relationship between the frequency of


mission-critical failures and the time to restore service.
Take Home Exercise
Propagation delay
Queuing delay
Transmission delay
Processing delay

Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability


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Faculty of Computing and Informatics


Department of Computer Sciences

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