Future Enhancements

The current network designs and its hardware and software will suffice for the time being. Although for the future events it will be better to upgrade the designs, hardware and software.

Network TopologiesThe current network design is using the bus and star topology. For future events, we believed that by using a dual ring topology will be more suitable.

Above Picture will show the supposedly dual ring and replace the bus topology of we are currently using. This is the case in each country booth. The reasons why we picked dual ring topology over bus topology in this case because: Ring topology is very organized as traffic flows only in one direction resulting high speed and less chances of collision. Even there is an increase load on the network, it only have little effect on the network performance resulting it having a better performance than the bus topology. Additional nodes or other hardware do not affect the network performance. Each computer has equal access to resources. By using a dual ring topology we eliminate the ring topology main disadvantages which is it dependence on the ring wire.

So, the concept of implementing the ring topology in the network will be more or less like this:

EquipmentsAs for the equipments, mainly the switches we are currently using in particular is the LGS552 52-port Managed Gigabit Switch which is more than adequate to handle all the needs during the event. It is certainly expensive with its price ranging in $1100.00 for one unit. Although in terms of current situation, the required switches specification needed are much lower ranging in just 12 48 port gigabit switches which is definitely more cheaper than the current one but if future installments are to be taken into account, the LGS552 52-port Managed Gigabit Switch will prove it can handle the problems despite its price.The equipment brands are also a factor where it defined the needed specification with its price. Again taking switches as example, different brands may provide cheaper price but good performance for example NETGEAR which provides cheaper prices and switches that are more towards the home/small office networks. Meanwhile, brands like for example Cisco, which provides more gigabit switches that have more ports to handle high number of nodes and larger process load. Cisco tend to have a higher price tag but are certainly useful in its specification towards larger and complex networks designs.

ConclusionsCurrently, our network designs are more than enough to handle the needs and requirements as it is: Easy to implement and extended. Well suited for temporary network as suited in our situation.With our high-end switches and more than enough server equipment, the reliability is the prime factor here over the price factor. We want to ensure fewer problems occurred during the implementation part of the event and during the process of the event.