Secure Multinational Video Gaming Company Network System Design and Implementation

Scenario Description: Secure Video Gaming Network:

A3X Ltd is a prominent online video game company based in the UK. The company's headquarters (HQ) is located in London. The company has branch offices in major cities across the UK, including Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool, as well as a branch in Berlin, Germany. The corporate management team is based at the HQ in London. The HQ comprises nine departments: Management (7 staff), Game Development (85 staff), Research (39 staff) and Sales (27 staff), HR (6 staff), Finance (5), Marketing (11 staff), Admin (8 staff) and IT (5 staff).

Each UK branch office currently has three departments: Sales (22 staff), Service (5 staff) and Marketing (4 staff). The Berlin branch has an additional Research department with 21 staff members. The company expects its workforce to double within the next three years. Presently, the company's servers are located in a 'Server Farm' zone at the HQ, accessible to all employees but managed exclusively by the IT department.

Assessment Criteria:

You role is to design a scalable, reliable and secure enterprise network for the company. You will configure the network based on your design using suitable simulation software (e.g., Cisco Packet Tracer) and conduct thorough testing. Your tasks are listed below:

• Analyse the given business scenario to produce a reliable, scalable and secure network design based on the provided network scenario. The designed network should be scalable, reliable, manageable and secure.
• Design a reasonable addressing scheme for the enterprise network, utilizing the given IPv4 network address 10.40.0.0/19 and IPv6 network address 2001.dcba.abcd::/48.
• Select relevant protocols to provide network redundancy.
• Evaluate potential security threats to the network and propose suitable and practical solutions to enhance network security.
• Design a network that provide secure Internet connections for all users. Additionally, ensure secure communication between remote users and HQ, as well as between HQ and branch offices using appropriate VPN techniques.
• Identify the best routing protocols for the proposed network to optimise its performance.
• Determine suitable network management method to effectively manage and monitor the network.
• Implement and test your design using a suitable simulation program.
• Prepare a PowerPoint Presentation file and 30-minutes video recording covering network design, implementation and testing. You presentation file should cover addressing table, network topology and a testing plan.

Network Topology Created
The network topology below satisfy the user requirements above and everything is verified, tested and working fine.