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TaskIn your role as a Solutions Architect at M2M Solutions, you are leading a team of several system administrators. M2M solutions is a medium sized organisation and is currently expanding its operations.The company has acquired six sites across Sydney to accommodate its various departments.You have been asked to design a network by utilizing XXXXXXXXXXprivate IP address. The network should span six buildings with a router in each building to join the networks. It is assumed that each building will have its own single subnet .Company expects approximately 1200 workstation across all the sites with approximate numbers in each building as follows:Finance Office - 260 workstationsTransport Office - 130 workstationsResearch Office - 120 workstationsSales Office - 40 workstationsInformation technology - 520 workstationsHead Office - 60 workstationsTASK 1 -Write a 1000 words (+/- 10%) report explaining:a.The detailed design of a simple addressing solution (with diagram(s) and step by step workout of the calculations) that leaves room for growth, is easy to administer and has the minimum wastage of available IP address space.b.Explain what happens to your design if the number of hosts per network jumps to over 1,024 per building.TASK 2 - Currently the company policy does not allow the use of network analysers on the organisational network. You have recently had a team meeting where all the staff are of the view that the use of network analysers can bring more efficiency in troubleshooting processes.Write an 800 words (+/- 10%) report for the board of directors proposing to allow the use of network analysers for diagnostic purposes in new proposed network architecture. Your report should include:a. Brief explanation of protocol in the context of communication networks and the role of network analysers. Explanation should include example of a situation where network analysers can be used in the context of Task 1.b. An analysis of currently available network analyser tools. The analysis should contain:i. Benefits, associated costs, ease of usabilityii. Recommendation from you, as to what tool would you prefer to use and why.(The reports should be targeted towards your audience i.e. the board of directors who may not be technologically savvy. Therefore the report should be easy to read and contain step by step overview of the design that includes calculations and assumptions.Additionally, the report contencts should be logically, systematically and succinctly structured to create a cohesive and coherent analytical piece of work, using formal academic language and should adhere to grammatical conventions.)

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Main Report Body 
Part 1. 
a. Design of the company network and simple addressing mechanism of IP address for all 
Hosts 
Company has a allotted private IP address such as 10.0.0.0. This private IP address is used to be 
masked to create local IP addresses for required workstations under each of the sub network of 
company offices across Sydney. 10.0.0.0 is a class A private IP address so that rightmost 8 bits 
are for the network ID and left most 24 bits are for the host ID. By considering this fact the 
subnetting is done to get the local IP addresses for the workstations of the offices of the 
company.  
The simple addressing mechanism is used to get enough IP address without wasting, the host 
bits are defined for each of the subnet of individual office of the company to allot required 
number of IP addresses to workstations. Subnetting and masking the common IP address such 
as 10.0.0.0 gives six different subnets with subnet ID and range of IP addresses for the host or 
workstations. The requirements of the IP addresses for individual offices of the company are as 
mentioned below. 
 Finance office – 260 IP addresses for 260 workstations 
 Transport office – 130 IP addresses for 130 workstations 
 Research office – 120 IP addresses for 120 workstations 
 Sales office – 40 IP addresses for 40 workstations 
 IT – 520 IP addresses for 520 workstations 
 Head office – 60 workstations for 60 workstations. 
These mentioned requirements of IP addresses for individual offices are fulfilled by subnetting 
the private IP address 10.0.0.0. The subnetting is performed by selecting the host bits for each 
subnet (Sub Network) of individual office of the company. The host bits are taken as power on 2 
to get the number of IP addresses (For example, host bits 2 then 2^2 = 4 IP Addresses, host bits 
3 then 2^3 = 8 IP addresses and so on). This is also a simple calculation for the distribution of 
the IP addresses for hosts under the subnet. 
The calculation for IP addresses for the given requirements of workstations for company offices 
are detailed as follows. 
 Subnet Finance Office : The required IP addresses are 260. Therefore the required host 
bits is taken as 9 such that 
2^9  greater than or equal to 260 
With this host bit total number of IP addresses are generated as 512 in which 2 
addresses can not be taken for workstations. These two addresses are for subnet ID and 
broadcast address. 
Thus, 510 – 260 = 250 IP addresses are free and can be used in future expansion of 
workstations. 
 Subnet transport Office : The required IP addresses are 130. Therefore the required host 
bits is taken as 8 such that 
2^8  greater than or equal to 130 
With this host bit total number of IP addresses are generated as 256 in which 2 
addresses cannot be taken for workstations. These two addresses are for subnet ID and 
broadcast address. 
Thus, 254 – 130 = 124 IP addresses are free and can be used in future expansion of 
workstations. 
 Subnet Research Office : The required IP addresses are 120. Therefore the required host 
bits is taken as 7 such that 
2^7  greater than or equal to 120 
With this host bit total number of IP addresses are generated as 128 in which 2 
addresses cannot be taken for workstations. These two addresses are for subnet ID and 
broadcast address. 
Thus, 126 – 120 = 6 IP addresses are free and can be used in future expansion of 
workstations. 
 Subnet Sales Office : The required IP addresses are 40. Therefore the required host bits 
is taken as 6 such that 
2^6  greater than or equal to 60 
With this host bit total number of IP addresses are generated as 64 in which 2 addresses 
cannot be taken for workstations. These two addresses are for subnet ID and broadcast 
address for subnet sales office. 
Thus,

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