ICT120
Introduction to Telecommunications and Networks
Task 2
Semester 2, 2016
Assessment and Submission Details
Marks: 20% of the Total Assessment for the Course
Due Date: 11:59pm Friday, Week 12
Submit your assignment to Blackboard Task 2. Please follow the submission instructions in Blackboard.
The assignment will be marked out of a total of 100 marks and forms 20% of the total assessment for the course. ALL assignments will be checked for plagiarism by SafeAssign system provided by Blackboard automatically.
Refer to your Course Outline or the Course Web Site for a copy of the “Student Misconduct, Plagiarism and Collusion” guidelines.
Assignment submission extensions will only be made using the official Faculty of Arts, Business and Law Guidelines.
Requests for an extension to an assignment MUST be made to the course coordinator prior to the date of submission and requests made on the day of submission or after the submission date will only be considered in exceptional circumstances.

Case Study: Youi’s New Headquarters
Youi Australia (Youi Pty Ltd) is a registered general insurance company, which began as a small star-up at Sunshine Coast in March 2008. Its products include motor, home, and watercraft insurance. The company experienced a rapid growth since its foundation. It takes more than 3 per cent market share in car and house insurance across Australia and New Zealand. The number of staff has expanded from 30 to over 900.
To accommodate its continuing growth, Youi decided to build their new global headquarters next to University of the Sunshine Coast at Sippy Downs. The new headquarters will span across 4.8 hectares, including 1800 car parks. The new office will house up to 2,000 workers, and become the home to all corporate positions including IT, marketing, and HR.
Good network infrastructure at the new headquarters should be capable of connecting all devices, offices, and staff. Youi understands this is a vital factor to support and enable its future growth. Therefore, it hopes to obtain a dependable plan for its network infrastructure before the actual construction work starts.
End of Case Study
Assignment Task
You are a member of the network planning team, and need to write a formal business management report to explain your solutions and recommendations about the future network infrastructure for Youi’s new headquarters.
Your target audience is executive business people, who have extensive business experience but limited ICT knowledge. They would like to be informed as to how your solutions may be beneficial to their business. Therefore, the report needs to recommend the telecommunications and networking technologies to be used in terms of business benefit. You may need to compare your recommendation with other available technologies.
Specifically, your report should discuss possible solutions for the following 3 topics in the main body.
A. Network Infrastructure
1) Network convergence and unified communications
2) LAN types and cabling plan
3) WAN connection with branches
4) Transmission media and connecting devices
5) IP and DNS management
B. Networked Services
Propose to deploy 4 types of network services. Candidates can be, but not limited to, VOIP, WWW, Intranet, Extranet, Email, and Web Services.
C. Data Processing Facilities
1) 3.1 Data storage solution. Candidates can be, but not limited to, data centre, SAN, Cloud, and distributed database.
2) 3.2 Data processing model. Candidates can be, but not limited to, C/S and P2P.
When you provide solutions to each topic, remember to explain their benefits to some of the following items:
• The operation of the headquarters
• The collaborations between the headquarters and global branch offices
• The operation of the business
• The satisfaction of customers
Note that you are requested to focus on the use of technologies into the proposed plan, but not the discussion of actual network and infrastructure requirements.
Please note that standard report structure, including an executive summary, must be adhered to.
The following guidelines will be used in marking each section of the assignment:
100% 90% 75% 65% 50% 25% 0
Outstanding: High Distinction: Distinction: Credit: Pass: Fail: Not Submitted:
An outstanding attempt – well formatted and professionally presented piece of work. An excellent piece of work that meets all the specified criteria with very minor omissions or mistakes More than competently
meets the criteria specified with only minor mistakes or omissions. Competently meets the criteria as specified with few minor mistakes or omissions. Satisfactorily meets the criteria. Did not sufficiently meet the
criteria to pass. No attempt made or different from what is acceptable
Report Format
Your report should be no less than 1,500 words and it would be best to be no longer than 3,000 words long.
The report MUST be formatted using the following guidelines:
• Paragraph text – 12 point Calibri single line spacing
• Headings – Arial in an appropriate type size
• Margins – 2.5cm on all margins
• Header – Report title
• Footer – page number (including the word “Page”)
• Page numbering – roman numerals (i, ii, iii, iv) up to and including the Table of Contents, restart numbering using conventional numerals (1, 2, 3, 4) from the first page after the Table of Contents.
• Title Page – Must not contain headers or footers. Include your name as the report’s author but DO NOT include any reference to your student ID, course code or course name.
• The report is to be created as a single Microsoft Word document (version 2007, 2010, 2013 or Office 365). No other format is acceptable and doing so will result in the deduction of marks.
• In Authorisation and Purpose Section, the report should be addressed to USC for the purpose of ICT 120 assessment.
The report is to be structured as a formal business report. Refer to the following references for details on report structures:
Summers, J. & Smith, B., 2014, Communication Skills Handbook, 4th Ed, Wiley, Australia.
Referencing
The report is to include (at least 5) appropriate references and these references should follow the Harvard method of referencing. Note that ALL references should be from journal articles, conference papers, technical papers or a recognized expert in the field. DO NOT use Wikipedia as a reference. The use of unqualified references will result in the deduction of marks.
Submission
The completed assignment is to be submitted to Blackboard Task 2 by the due date of 11:59pm Friday, Week 12.
The assignment will be assessed according to the marking sheet. Late submission will be penalised according to the policy in the course outline. Please note Saturday and Sunday are included in the count of days late.
Assignment Return and Release of Grades
Assignment grades will be available on the course web site no later than 3 weeks after the submission due date. An electronic assignment marking sheet will be available at this time. Where an assignment is undergoing investigation for alleged plagiarism or collusion the grade for the assignment and the assignment will be withheld until the investigation has concluded.
Assignment Guidelines
This assignment will take a number of weeks to complete and will require a good understanding of data science and management for successful completion. It is imperative that students take heed of the following points in relation to doing this assignment:
1. Ensure that you clearly understand the requirements for the assignment – what has to be done and what are the deliverables.
2. If you do not understand any of the assignment requirements – Please ASK the course coordinator or your tutor.
3. Each time you work on any aspect of the assignment reread the assignment requirements to ensure that what is required is clearly understood.
Appendix A
Marking Sheet for ICT120 2016.S2 Assignment 2
Student name: Student ID:
Items Maximum Marks Marks Obtained
Report formatting (font, header and footer, table of content, numbering, referencing) 5
Professional communication (correct spelling, grammar, formal business language used) 5
Executive summary 5
Report introduction 5
A. Network
Infrastructure A.1 Convergence 5
A.2 LAN 10
A.3 WAN 10
A.4 Connecting media and devices 10
A.5 IP and DNS 5
B. Networked Services B.1 Service 1 5
B.2 Service 2 5
B.3 Service 3 5
B.4 Service 4 5
C. Data Processing Facilities C.1 Data storage 10
C.2 Data processing 5
Conclusion and Recommendations 5
Total = 100 0.0
0.0 /20%

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