You are a network engineer for a medium-sized enterprise business with a campus area network in place using EIGRP. The campus consists of four buildings, each building has a LAN, which is connected to the company headquarters building. The main IT communications room is located in the headquarters building and includes most shared resources and the connection to the ISP through a dedicated ISP router. Currently, the company is using LAN technology to connect all the end systems within each building and WAN technology to connect the buildings to the headquarters site.
You have been asked to design a proposal for a new network. You have been asked to consider IPV6 for deployment now or in the future. You have identified the business goals of the project and is in the process of outlining the technical goals and constraints needed for the new network, designing the new network topology, and selecting the new equipment. Part of the technical goals will be to justify your network routing protocol decision (for example: stay with EIGRP or migrate to OSPF), identify all of the needed LAN and WAN equipment, create a bill of materials for your network, and create a Visio diagram of the CAN and each building. You will also devise a basic security proposal for your network. The current network does make use of VLANs, STP, and other network traffic options on the current LAN switches. Even with all of this in place, the company has experienced bottlenecks. You would like to try and use EtherChannel as an option for, at least, part of the network to see if it will lessen traffic congestion between your access and distribution layer switches. In addition, the documentation at the access layer is nonexistent and will have to be created. You will also need to develop an IP addressing system.