INTRODUCTION

Higher educational institutions involve a lot of record keeping to track progress of students.
During high-traffic periods, such as registration, exams, and grade reporting, information needs to
be transmitted quickly and reliably. Latency produces bottlenecks that could cause students,
professors and employees to miss vital deadlines.

A high-performing network is required to ensure that the system doesn’t shut down when
professors simultaneously rush to report grades before the deadline. Likewise, students won’t miss
out on enrolling in a required course at registration time because the system is inaccessible.

In higher education, the ability to scale up and down is important because new student
populations are continually moving through. The system needs to scale to respond to changing
workloads. In business, employee populations don’t typically change as regularly and drastically
as they do in education. Registration time at a university is essentially a huge period of onboarding
that places stress on the system.
Colleges and universities are better preparing their students for today’s business world by
incorporating more technology into the way they teach and conduct research. Technology is also
making it easier for higher education institutions to keep records and track student progress.
However, none of these efforts make a difference if supporting technology fails when it matters.
Angeles University Foundation is a private educational institution which provides diploma,
undergraduate courses and postgraduate and located at Mac Arthur Highway, Angeles City. Its
existing network, a Flat Network, have faced challenge due to the growing number of student in
the last 5 years where by internet users has grown as with poor network infrastructure and services
provided, this has made the network slow, unavailable all the time, unreliable and difficult to
manage.
A Flat Network is a computer network design approach that aims to reduce cost,
maintenance and administration. Flat networks are designed to reduce the number
of routers and switches on a computer network by connecting the devices to a single switch instead
of separate switches.
Flat networks are typically used in homes or small businesses where network requirements
are low. Among its disadvantages are poor security, no redundancy and limited scalability and
speed. Connecting all the devices to one central switch, either directly or through hubs, increases
the potential for collisions (due to hubs), reduced speed at which the data can be transmitted and
additional time for the central switch to process the data. It also scales badly and increases the
chance of the network failing if excessive hubs are used and there are not enough switches to
control the flow of the data through the network.
 This study, is a network based system on LAN security whose main aim is to upgrade the
existing network of Angeles University Foundation, handle traffic, provide reliable, fast
connection and available anytime and ensure security of users and the system.
Through this system, network will provide more services and good connection to reduce
the current problem of non-reliability, non-availability and other problem.

Objectives
The following are the objectives of the study:
· Increase speed of processing and response time.
· Design and implementation network security and Qos.
· IP Address management &provide redundancy link to avoid link failure.
· Provide flexibility to meet user requirement.
· Upgrading existence LAN and integration of voice in network.
· Once login with valid username and password in the network, the administrator can
perform assignment of Address, troubleshooting and configuration.
· To perform secure login and provide remote access to the network by using telnet.

Statement of the Problem

The current network is facing the following problems:
· No redundancy: large failure domain, device failure, no network segmentation
and link failure also synchronization
· Accessibility and availability: the current network is not available all the time
due to failure of device and link.
· Security: with the current system security is not implemented to protect users.
· Manageability: due to local based management of network. Network
administrator and technician are required to move one location to another and
troubleshooting is becoming.
· Flat Network Design: no scalability and large point of failure

Scope and Delimitation

The proposed system will ensure availability, security, redundancy, manageability and
better performance of the existing network of Angeles University Foundation Main Campus. The
users will be divided in terms of VLAN and all access to services will be allowed by Access
Control List, also reduce link failure and device failure by implementing routing protocol and
lastly to integrate voice communication in form of IP telephone in addition. The proponent will
implement 2 routers to manage traffic. The proposed network will allow only network
administrator to login from a remote location for configuration and troubleshooting using telnet
particular switches.
These are services will be provided by the proposed hierarchical network:
· Telnet
· IP telephone
· VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network)
· Port Security
· Rapid STP (Rapid Spanning Tree)
· HTTP
· Routing Protocol
· DHCP sever and Protocol to provide IP addresses to devices on campus. There
have been no DHCP outages year to date, exceeding the SLA goal of 99.95%
availability.
· The expect output from this project is LAN and Wireless implementation in the
campus
· Buildings. User may connect to the network anywhere within the campus. LAN
and Wireless
· Networking for small area offers computer connectivity with no strings
attached.