Business Case: • ALEPH is an education association established by a state government to set up and govern public schools in a state in Australia and establish connectivity to public libraries within...

Business Case:
• ALEPH is an education association established by a state government to set up and govern public schools in a state in Australia and establish connectivity to public libraries within the state.
• ALEPH has plans of setting up at the least 10 public schools within the state in Australia and establish connectivity between at the least 15 public libraries. ALEPH has awarded the real estate setup to a corporate entity. ALEPH is asking you to design the network and security hardware/software infrastructure.

• ALEPH and the state government wants to offer appropriate network and internet services for students, teachers, school management teams and the state ministry department via cloud services.


High Level Requirements:
The main objective of the network setup will be to offer secured data transfer and data storage facilities for students/teachers/library personnel.
• Network for students should have screening facilities and block inappropriate content
• Network facilities for students should restrict students to age appropriate content and to content enabling their learning.
• Network facilities for teachers and school management should allow for secured data transfer as teachers will use the facilities to store and transfer data on students academic
records.
• With learning services being accessed by students statewide, the expected system and network availability is 99.99%.
– You should explore the market and recommend appropriate network management tools to ensure great coverage, system availability and traffic monitoring.
– You should also explore the market and advise ALEPH of various ways to filter age appropriate content.
• You need to explore site VPNs interconnected via WAN.
• Network redundancy is a key requirement and a redundant WAN connectivity is preferred wherever Internet access is used to connect to state government and ministry.
• Roadmap should include expansion along with extending the network capability and facilities in the near future.
•    Proposed network design should cater for this to be done with no disruptions to operations.


What is expected of you!
Project Management & Planning Documents
– Project Management Plan
– Project Plan
• Solution Documents
– Network and Infrastructure design including
• Security design
• Infrastructure design
– Architectural Design Principles
– Recommendation on standards, guidelines, and standard operating procedures