Design and configuration of a company network : Case study AstraZeneca Russia

This work was aimed at preparing and testing the enterprise network for a factory which must support 500 users. The main idea of the work was to investigate design principles, understand in which way a good network should be designed and to summarize required information in a proposed design solution that would meet the company’s need. The second aspect of this thesis was to highlight important technologies and protocols needed to run a network, gather theoretical information on them as a background study and to prepare configuration samples applied in the proposed design. The information was gathered from different sources, such as books, articles and guidelines and the practical part included trying to apply the obtained knowledge using the PacketTracer software and Virtual Laboratory’s environment at Kotka campus of South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences. As a result of this thesis a configured and tested network design was created