There are three components to this project: First, as an individual, you are to complete the Unit 4 lab tasks. Second you are to prepare a short paper, 1-2 pages, that demonstrates your understanding of IP addressing. Submit your individual work to the Small Group individual area. Third, work with your team to develop a paper that meets the stated user requirements. Individual Work Click  here  to refer to the instructions for the unit 4 lab tasks. You are Sam Smith, a network technician with Global Packaging. You have been asked to configure the Internet Protocol (IP) address and subnet mask on a local host computer to enable IP connectivity. For this assignment, include the following: Explain why and how the IP address and subnet mask enable computers to communicate with each other on that network. Briefly explain how you know that the host computer was placed on the correct subnet. Explain the relationship between IP addressing, DNS and DHCP. Describe briefly the different types of network messages. Submit your individual work in a Word document approximately 1-2 pages in length to the Small Group submission area. Group Work As you have gained experience in the topic of network design and development through this course, the team must design a global organization’s network. This organization has approximately 600 employees distributed evenly among six different departments. Its headquarters is located in Los Angeles, CA, and it has major offices in Madrid, Spain, Tokyo, Japan, and Sydney, Australia. Discuss your IP addressing scheme and whether you implemented subnetting or Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR). Design the following for availability, reliability, and performance. Explain and support your choices. Include a table of components, quantity, and prices: Local area network (LAN) (host to switch using a hybrid of cables and wireless options) LAN backbone design (utilizing fiber optics) Wide area network (WAN) design with a primary connection and backup connection for redundancy IP addressing scheme for the organization’s network (Class B private network address) Summation as to how design addresses availability, reliability and performance requirements Describe recommendations regarding network security such as hardware and security policy Suggest high level disaster recovery or business continuity plan Prepare a Word document that is between 6–8 body pages in length. Add a title page and abstract. Citations and references must be in APA format. Include diagrams that illustrate your backbone and WAN design. Submit the Word document to the Small Group submission area. Refer to the APA style guide found in the Library for further information. In the Small Group Discussion Board, deliberate with the other team members about the implications of the LabSim assignments in all units completed to date, including this Unit’s LabSim assignments. Discuss how this knowledge impacted your ability to make the choices that you did in the organi.

1. There are three components to this project:
First, as an individual, you are to complete the Unit 4 lab tasks.
Second you are to prepare a short paper, 1-2 pages, that
demonstrates your understanding of IP addressing. Submit your
individual work to the Small Group individual area.
Third, work with your team to develop a paper that meets the
stated user requirements.
Individual Work
Click
here
to refer to the instructions for the unit 4 lab tasks.
You are Sam Smith, a network technician with Global
Packaging. You have been asked to configure the Internet
Protocol (IP) address and subnet mask on a local host computer
to enable IP connectivity. For this assignment, include the
following:
Explain why and how the IP address and subnet mask enable
computers to communicate with each other on that network.
Briefly explain how you know that the host computer was
placed on the correct subnet.
Explain the relationship between IP addressing, DNS and
DHCP.
Describe briefly the different types of network messages.
Submit your individual work in a Word document approximately
1-2 pages in length to the Small Group submission area.
Group Work
As you have gained experience in the topic of network design
and development through this course, the team must design a
global organization’s network. This organization has
approximately 600 employees distributed evenly among six
different departments. Its headquarters is located in Los
Angeles, CA, and it has major offices in Madrid, Spain, Tokyo,
Japan, and Sydney, Australia. Discuss your IP addressing
scheme and whether you implemented subnetting or Classless
Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR).

2. Design the following for availability, reliability, and
performance. Explain and support your choices. Include a table
of components, quantity, and prices:
Local area network (LAN) (host to switch using a hybrid of
cables and wireless options)
LAN backbone design (utilizing fiber optics)
Wide area network (WAN) design with a primary connection
and backup connection for redundancy
IP addressing scheme for the organization’s network (Class B
private network address)
Summation as to how design addresses availability, reliability
and performance requirements
Describe recommendations regarding network security such as
hardware and security policy
Suggest high level disaster recovery or business continuity plan
Prepare a Word document that is between 6–8 body pages in
length. Add a title page and abstract. Citations and references
must be in APA format. Include diagrams that illustrate your
backbone and WAN design. Submit the Word document to the
Small Group submission area. Refer to the APA style guide
found in the Library for further information.
In the Small Group Discussion Board, deliberate with the other
team members about the implications of the LabSim
assignments in all units completed to date, including this Unit’s
LabSim assignments. Discuss how this knowledge impacted
your ability to make the choices that you did in the
organization’s network design.
Please submit your assignment.
For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web
resources, and all course materials.
Project Criteria
Exceeds
90% – 100%
Very good
80% – 89%

3. Meets
70%–79%
Needs Improvement Below 70%
Content
40%
Response covers all topics indicated in the assignment and adds
additional content.
Response covers most topics indicated in the assignment.
Response covers many of the topics indicated in the assignment.
Response covers none to some of the topics indicated in the
assignment.
Effective Communication
15%
Demonstrates outstanding or exemplary application of written,
visual, or oral skills. Demonstrates outstanding expression of
topic, main idea, and purpose. Audience is addressed
appropriately. Language clearly and effectively communicates
ideas and content relevant to the assignment. Errors in grammar,
spelling, and sentence structure are minimal. Organization is
clear. Format is consistently appropriate to assignment.
Presentation and delivery are confident and persuasive (where
applicable). The writing was of collegiate level with no errors
in spelling or grammar.
Demonstrates very good written, visual, or oral skills.
Demonstrates sound expression of topic, main idea, and
purpose. Audience is usually addressed appropriately. Language
does not interfere with the communication of ideas and content
relevant to the assignment. Errors in grammar, spelling, and
sentence structure are present, but do not distract from the
message. Organization is apparent and mostly clear. Format is
appropriate to assignment, but not entirely consistent. The
writing was of collegiate level with two or less errors in
spelling or grammar.
Demonstrates acceptable written, visual, or oral skills.
Demonstrates reasonable expression of topic, main idea, and
purpose. Sometimes, audience is addressed appropriately.

4. Language does not interfere with the communication of ideas
and content relevant to the assignment. Errors in grammar,
spelling, and sentence structure are present and may distract
from the message. Organization is a bit unclear. Format is
inconsistent. The writing was of collegiate level with several
errors in spelling or grammar.
Demonstrates inadequate or partially proficient application of
written, visual, or oral skills. Demonstrates inadequate or
partial expression of topic, main idea, and purpose. Audience is
often not addressed appropriately. Language often impedes the
communication of ideas and content relevant to the assignment.
Errors in grammar, spelling, and sentence structure are frequent
and often distract from meaning or presentation. Organization is
inadequate, confusing, and distracting. Format is inadequate and
obscures meaning. The writing was less than collegiate level
with numerous errors in spelling or grammar.
Supporting Analysis
20%
Analysis exceeds minimum requirements. Sources are used to
support analysis, are appropriate, and are properly referenced.
Basic analysis provided to support assertions. Sources are cited,
appropriate, and properly referenced.
Limited analysis provided to support assertions. Some sources
are cited, appropriate, and properly referenced.
No or inaccurate analysis, no sources are cited when needed,
analysis or sources are not appropriate. When sources used, they
are not properly referenced.
Effective Planning and Execution of Project
25%
Student participated fully, offered significant contributions to
the development of a plan that identified all necessary tasks.
Student demonstrated exceptional team skills in most of these
areas: collaboration, leadership, consensus building,
negotiation, conflict resolution, respect, problem solving,
management, organizational, time management, etc. Supported
other team members at the highest level.

5. Student participated at an adequate level (85%), offered
reasonable suggestions for the development of a plan that
identified nearly all necessary tasks. Student demonstrated very
good team skills in several of these areas: collaboration,
leadership, consensus building, negotiation, conflict resolution,
respect, problem solving, management, organizational, time
management, etc. Provided support to other team members.
Student participated in a limited fashion and contributed very
little to the development of a plan that identified some of the
necessary tasks. Student demonstrated at least one team skill
(e.g., collaboration, leadership, consensus building, negotiation,
conflict resolution, respect, problem solving, management,
organizational, time management, etc.).
Student participation and contributions were extremely
insignificant to non-existent. Student failed to demonstrate any
team skills (e.g., collaboration, leadership, consensus building,
negotiation, conflict resolution, respect, problem solving,
management, organizational, time management, etc.).