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Task 1(Hand in Date : 21/3/16)

Before designing and implementing a Small Home or Office Network (SOHO) you need to understand the impact of them.

Research and evaluate the usage and impact of current small or home office networks.  There are a range of devices that connect to a network evaluate the impact on the following.

(Unit 26 : LO1)

• Routing hardware: hardware eg access routers, distribution routers, core switches, layer 3 switches

• Routing protocols: protocol eg interior routing protocols, exterior routing, static routing

• Protocol management: management eg redistribution between protocols, route maps, route filters

• Device management: management eg password control, access levels, configuration storage, remote access

• Network management: types eg address allocation, interface configuration, load balancing, mirroring, costing routes, changing metrics, hop-count

• Security: requirements eg MD5 hash (Message Digest), update control, access control lists, directed updates, tunnelling

You are required to produce a presentation of this SOHO Solution.

As part of your presentation you are to explain the different hardware, software and peripheral components of a computer system and compare the two types of computer systems.(Mobile and Fixed)  You may use any suitable presentation software to deliver the presentation and include speaker notes and hand-outs for the managers to aid their understanding.

(Unit 2 LO1.1, LO1.2, LO1.3)