This document discusses enterprise campus networks and presents alternatives to traditional campus network designs. It outlines challenges with complex campus networks including availability, performance, security, and managing bandwidth utilization and prioritized traffic. It proposes a simplified, hierarchical network architecture and discusses supporting techniques like LACP, VLANs, STP, firewalls, and VPNs to improve security, availability, and traffic management. The conclusion advocates for alternative personalized approaches to campus networks that can efficiently meet requirements while maintaining security, performance, and compliance with administrative policies.

1. Enterprise Campus Networks
Presented by
Central Computing Center
NIT Silchar

2. Outline
• Traditional Campus Networks
• Complex Networks & Challenges
• Bandwidth Utilization
• Prioritized Traffic
• Supporting Techniques
• Security Requirements
• Simplification of Network
• Policies
• Conclusion

3. Traditional Campus Networks

4. Traditional Campus Networks
Campus Network
• A building or group of buildings connected into one enterprise
network that consists of or more LANs.
• The company usually owns the physical wires deployed in the
campus.
• Generally uses LAN technologies.
• Generally deploy a campus design that is optimized for the fastest
functional architecture over existing wire.

5. Complex Networks & Challenges
• Complex in terms of number of end users, networking components,
topology, administrative policies.
• Challenges
• Availability
• Supporting Atmosphere as per requirement
• Security
• Performance
• cost

6. Complex Networks & Challenges
Network Administrator Challenges
• LAN run effectively and efficiently
• Availability and performance impacted by the amount of bandwidth in the
network
• Understand, implement and manage traffic flow
Current Issues
• Broadcasts: IP ARP requests
Emerging Issues
• Multicast traffic (traffic propagated to a specific group of users on a
subnet), video conferencing, multimedia traffic
• Security and traffic flow

7. Topology & Network requirements
Simplified, Hierarchical Network Architecture,
Personalized Topology

8. Bandwidth Utilization
• Network traffic has became highly unpredictable. in terms of
Speed: at what speed we require additional bandwidth
Direction: where my traffic is going
• Video enabled application
• Mobile devices

9. Multiplexing
• Whenever the bandwidth of a medium linking two devices is greater
than the bandwidth needs of the devices, the link can be shared.
• Multiplexing is the set of techniques that allows the simultaneous
transmission of multiple signals across a single data link.
• As data and telecommunications use increases, so does traffic.

11. Prioritized Traffic
• Direction in terms of high traffic utilization path
• Address based priority
• More Ideas on Traffic Management
• Improve TCP
• Stay with end-point only architecture
• Enhance routers to help TCP
• Random Early Discard
• Enhance routers to control traffic
• Rate limiting
• Fair Queuing
• Provide QoS by limiting congestion

12. Supporting Techniques
• Availability
• Physical link
• LACP
• Logical connectivity
• Dynamic protocols based on situation
• Unnecessary broadcast, multicast traffic
• Security
• Traffic
• VLAN, VTP
• STP
• Availability
• VPN
• DOS & DDOS
• Sniffing, Spam, Large amount of junk data

13. LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol)
• IEEE 802.3AD that allows us to bunch of physical ports to form a
single logical channel. Maintained in full duplex mode and parallel
point to point with at least 1G connections.
• higher Potential transmission speed
• higher Accessibility
• higher Availability & Reliability
• Balancing and Rebalancing

14. VLAN (Virtual LAN)
• Sub divided LAN into Virtual LAN, which creates own broadcast
domain that is partitioned and isolated in our network from Layer-2.
• Broadcast Traffic Control
• Security: from Port level
• VTP: VLAN Trucking protocol (802.1Q) configured in Layer-2 devices
to communicate VLAN information over Trunk Port.

15. STP (Spanning Tree Protocol)
• STP: Network Protocol that ensures a loop free connection and
avoiding Broadcast Traffic.
• Security: Avoiding end users to share their own network.
• STP Port security: ensure to dedicate specific Systems with their
Media Access Control.

16. Fundamental Pillars of Alternative Approach
of Enterprise Network
• Architecture: simplified network model
• Control: intelligence, handling context dynamically or administratively
• Operations: visibility on what happening in network and able to
manage

17. Security Requirements (From End-User Port to Boundaries
of Private Network)
• Firewall
• Anti Virus
• Anti Spam
• Anti Malware
• Port Scanners
• Email Scanners
• URL Filters
• IPsec
• IDS, IPS
• TLS,SSL
• Wireless Controller
• VPN
• Packet Inspectors
• Application Controller

18. Proxies and Tools
• PRTG, Whatsup Gold, Nessus, Angry IP Scanner, Wireshark, Ethereal,
Snort, Netcat, BURP, TCPdump, Hping, DNSiff, GFI LANguard, Ettercap,
Nikto, John the Ripper, OpenSSH, TripWire, Kismet, NetFilter, IP Filter,
pf, fport, SAINT, OpenPGP …

20. Policies
Policies should be based on Network Usage, Requirements,
Scenario, Applications, Number of Users, Traffic, Bandwidth

21. Conclusion
• Campus network functional service have to fulfil with out sacrificing
security, performance, reliability based on predefined administrative
policies. Traditional approaches may not efficient now, alternative
personalized approaches are required

22. Thanking You