Network Design Project for a 5 Star Hotel

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Abstract

Economic globalization and diverse development trends keep on intensifying the competition in the hotel industry. The success depends on the restructuring of the conventional system with the aim of reducing management costs, improving service quality, attracting more customers, and satisfying customer expectations. For instance, hotel chains are developing rapidly and enjoy a strong competitive edge, thanks to cutting-edge information technologies and advanced business models that implement branding, chain operation, and standardization strategies. This project is focused on WLANs and associated wireless technology in a 5 Star Hotel in Rio (Brazil) in preparation for the Fifa World cup 2014. A comprehensive and holistic approach is required in order to truly derive an overall understanding of the complex, integrated and inter-dependent aspects of IT at the time of addressing the key aspects of technology such as WLANs. Hence, further to wireless technology, the guide also delves into security issues. This area should be further addressed in order to gain a comprehensive understanding and view of wireless technology's role within your district's overall IT strategy.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTII

DECLARATIONIII

ABSTRACTIV

1. INTRODUCTION1

Background of the project1

Aim of the project2

Current Scenario & Requirement of project2

Methodology5

Risk Assessment5

Gantt Chart7

2. NETWORK SECURITY AT 5 STAR HOTEL9

3. ONE NET HOTEL CHAIN PROPOSED SOLUTION15

4. WIRELESS ACCESS21

5. 5 STAR HOTEL SECURITY PROPOSED SOLUTION26

REFERENCES35

1. Introduction

Background of the project

It is critical for every computing system that renders support to a number of processes that there must exist a mechanism to allocate resources of the concerned processes along with the policies that govern access on the basis of the rights provided to one of the processes when discussing the resource allocation. Therefore, it is overtly evident that in a conventional timesharing operating system, the policies governing authorization and resource allocation are required to be rendered by the principal process, which could be, for instance, at the time when the application sends a system call. However, in case of networking, firewalls or proxies can play a momentous part in enforcing policies for individuals and/or sessions datagrams that seek to overrun the limitations in place with the aim of establishing a link between the inside and the outside environment (Borisov, 2009, pp. 208-211).

The wireless technology has ostensibly grasped the attention of the market and now Wireless LANs can be seen everywhere whether at the office, at home, in the hotel, in the coffee shop or at the airport. However, the wireless concept has its roots in the wireless modem of the early 90's. Moreover, the early wireless modems were originated and specially designed for single peripheral ...