Hans Schmidt and D’Mico Johnson
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Epical Systems Solutions is an Industry Leader in
providing businesses of any size network solutions
that will: increase network usability, reduce
network costs and increase profitability. We offer a
wide range of services that can fit the needs of any
organization large or small.
Been in business for 11years
successfully implemented 100+ network designs
for businesses of all types.
We have certified network engineers and
technicians on staff with 3+ years of experience in
WAN and LAN environments
The LDE school district requires a new LAN
and WAN design that will be reliable and cost
effective to support is schools and services.
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Schools
Address
City
Video
Cameras
2001 Leon C. Simon New Orleans 20
Drive
IP Phones
PCs
Servers
Printers
40
200
10
10
4
10
80
3
3
1
Benjamin Franklin
High School
2
Acadia Parish
Alternative School
Baton Rouge High
School
404 West 12th Street Crowley
1105 Lee Drive
Baton Rouge 7
20
150
10
6
4
Mamou High School
1008 Seventh Street
Mamou
3
10
50
3
4
5
Church Point High
School
1205 Fourth Street
Church
Point
4
10
50
3
3
6
Lafayatte High School
3000 West Congress Lafayatte
Street
5
15
80
3
5
7
Ross Elementary
School
1809 West
Hutchinson Ave
3
10
70
3
3
3
Crowley
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New IP scheme for all locations
Routing Configuration for all locations
Switched Gigabit Ethernet for New Orleans High
school and Baton Rouge High School
A LAN and WAN design capable of providing highspeed transfer of files, email and multimedia materials.
Servers located in a DMZ
WIFI for Baton Rouge and New Orleans High Schools
Secure WAN and LAN design
Integrated voice and video application into all of the 7
schools with QoS
Uptime of 99.999%
Turn-key installation
Work plan stages
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Stage 1: Required Analysis
 Existing Hardware Analysis
 Network Analysis
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Stage 2: Design
 Network Design
Stage 3: Testing
 Stage 4: Implementation
 Stage 5: Evolution
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 Revisit solution to make sure its still working.
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All buildings will be connected through the cloud through a single
connection using MPLS.
The two core campus buildings (New Orleans High School and
Baton Rouge High school) will have dual connections out to the
cloud.
All router and switches will support Vlans, Gigabit Ethernet, and
QOS.
All buildings will route internal traffic to the core buildings for
centralized control and support of network applications.
All hardware will have dual connections to reduce downtime in
the event of a link or hardware failure.
New Orleans High School and Baton Rouge High Schools will
have Wireless 802.11N, deployed throughout the entire campus.
A new IP scheme will be deployed that will support summarized
routes for routing across the cloud and the internal schemes allow
for expandability when the need arises.
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Verizon MPLS provider
MPLS Router at ever location
BGP MPLS routing protocol
Quality of Service (QoS) will be implemented in
on the routers to give voice traffic higher priority.
This will insure that packet traffic for voice and
other media connection will not be delayed or
dropped due to interference from other lower
priority traffic
Security
 Infrastructure
 Switches- Secure management, change
controls, encryption communications and
utilizing ssh and Radius.
 Network – IDS/IPS solutions, MD5
authentication and other network monitoring
tools such as packet captures and monitors.
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Enhanced Interior Gateway Protocol (EIGRP) will be
used as our interior routing protocol. EIGRP allows
routers to share information it knows about the
network with neighboring routers within the same
logical area. Unlike other routing protocols EIGRP only
shares information that other routers don’t already
have. EIGRP reduces the workload of the router and
the amount of data that needs to be transmitted
between routers.
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) will be used as our
exterior routing protocol. BGP is designed to exchange
routing and reachability information between
autonomous systems on the internet.
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Campus Core switch: Cisco Catalyst 4500
Building Distribution Switch: Cisco Catalyst 3750
Access Switch: Cisco Catalyst 2960 48 or 24 port
Access Switch POE (Voip and Wireless): Cisco
Catalyst 2960 48 or 24 port + POE
Router: Cisco 3945 ISR
Wireless Access Point: Cisco Aironet 600
Wireless Controller: Cisco 5500 Wireless Controller
Benjamin Franklin High
School
PC
Wireless
VOIP
Security
Printers
Servers
Management
WAN 1
WAN 2
Network
Subnet
10.0.1.0
10.0.2.0
10.0.3.0
10.0.4.0
10.0.5.0
10.0.6.0
10.0.7.0
10.0.0.0
10.0.0.4
/24
/24
/26
/27
/28
/27
/26
/30
/30
Hosts
254
254
62
30
14
30
62
2
2
Physical Campus layout
Building Distribution 1
Ross Elementary School
Building Distribution 1
Acadia Parish Alternative School
Building Distribution 2
Building Distribution 1
Building Distribution 2
Building Distribution 1
Campus Core 1
Internet
Campus Core 1
Baton Rouge High School
Benjamin Franklin High School
Building Distribution 2
Building Distribution 2
Campus Core 2
Campus Core 2
Building Distribution 1
Building Distribution 1
Building Distribution 2
Church Point High School
Building Distribution 2
Building Distribution 1
Lafayatte High School
Building Distribution 2Mamou High School
Physical Building Layout
Internet
Building Distribution 1
Building Distruibution 2
Server Core 1
WAP only for New
Orleans High School
and Baton Rouge
Server Core 2
Access Switch
wap
Physical Core Building Layout
Internet
Server Core 1
Building Distribution 1
Building Distruibution 2
Server Core 2
Access Switch
wap
Ross Elementary School
Lafayatte High School
Acadia Parish Alternative School
10.6.0.0
10.5.0.0
10.1.0.0
10.2.0.0
10.0.0.0
Baton Rouge High School
Benjamin Franklin High School
10.4.0.0
10.3.0.0
Church Point High School
Mamou High School
Printer
Server
10.X.5.0
10.X.6.0
Wireless
10.X.2.0
10.x.0.0
10.X.0.4
10.X.0.0
10.X.3.0
WAN 2
WAN 1
VOIP
10.X.1.0
10.X.7.0
Managment
PC
Installation/Implementation will be parallel to
existing network.
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MPLS implementation
Network implementation
 Configure ASA’s, Routing Protocols, QoS and VLAN’s
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Hardware/Software Setup
 Setup Servers, Wireless LAN Controller, VOIP and
Software.
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All network maintenance outside of emergency maintenance will be performed on the
weekend or after school hours to reduce network downtime
All non-emergency maintenance will be scheduled in advance
School board personnel will be e-mailed in the event of emergency and unscheduled
network maintenance
Epical Systems Solutions will provide the agreed upon support listed below:
Verified WAN speeds tested monthly with agreed upon measurement mechanism
24hr Proactive monitoring software will be installed on the network and report back to
Epical Systems Solutions
Support technician deployed within 4hrs of notified issue or failure in the network.
Up time of 99.999% during the school and office hours of 7am – 5pm
Epical Systems Solutions will provide an online ticketing solution for staff to report and
track all current and past network issues
All network hardware will be under warranty and Epical Systems Solutions will have
cold spares on hand in the event of hardware failure
Client: Lousiana Department of Education
Item
Cisco 2960
Description
48 Port Distribution
Switch
Quanity
Cost Per Unit
14
$1,245.00
Yearly Maintenance
Cost
$
6,500.00
$23,930.00
$6,500.00
$53,200.00
$15,200.00
Cisco 4500
Cisco ASA
5555
Cisco 3945
ISR
24 Port Core Swtich
4
$9,500.00
Firewall Appliance
7
$10,950.00
$
4,350.00
$81,000.00
$4,350.00
Integrated Service Router
7
$7,500.00
$
17,500.00
$70,000.00
$17,500.00
Cisco VOIP
MPLS
IP Phone System
5 Mbps MPLS Line
7
7
$5,600.00
$8,100.00
$
15,500.00
$54,700.00
$56,700.00
$15,500.00
$56,700.00
Ethernet
Satellite
Internet
Ethernet for sites 8 Mbps
Backup Internet
3mbpsx1mbps
7
$4,200.00
$29,400.00
$29,400.00
7
$1,524.00
$10,668.00
$10,668.00
*Epic
Systems
Initial Analysis, Network
Design, Testing and
Implementation
$78,000.00
$31,200.00
$379,598.00
$155,838.00
Total Cost
1
$15,200.00
Initial Cost
Reoccuring Cost
(yearly)
*Epic Systems pricing is based upon a 26 week implementation process and a total of 1040 man hours dedicated to this project.
This estimate is subject to change if the times span or man hours go over our 15% threshold.
Cisco Catalyst 2960:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps12995/prod_model
s_comparison.html
 Cisco Catalyst 4500:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324
/index.html
 Cisco Catalyst 3750:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10745/index.html
 Cisco 3945 ISR:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10541/index.html
 Cisco Aironet 600:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11579/index.html
 Cisco 5500 Series Wireless Controller:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10315/index.html
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