Learn a top-down approach to network design, from business requirements and technical goals through topology, addressing, security, technology selection, testing, optimization, and documentation. This historical teaching collection includes a course syllabus, an overview, 13 chapter presentations, supporting topics, and a textbook reference.
All 19 resources were verified on October 19, 2026. PowerPoint and Word files may download for opening in their corresponding applications.
Course Information and Textbook
- 1Network Analysis and Design — Course OverviewPPT
Introduction to top-down network design, requirements analysis, OSI layers, organizational factors, and a university network case study.
- 2CIS460 — Fall 2004 Course SyllabusDOC
Course outline and requirements for the historical Network Analysis and Design class.
- 3Top-Down Network Design — Cisco PressLINK
Publisher page for the course textbook by Priscilla Oppenheimer, with book details and related resources.
Chapter Presentations
- 4Chapter 1: Analyzing Business Goals and ConstraintsPPT
Identify business needs, project scope, organizational constraints, and requirements that guide a top-down network design.
- 5Chapter 2: Analyzing Technical Goals and ConstraintsPPT
Evaluate scalability, availability, performance, security, manageability, usability, adaptability, affordability, and their tradeoffs.
- 6Chapter 3: Characterizing the Existing InternetworkPPT
Map existing devices, segments, cabling, and environmental constraints to assess realistic design improvements.
- 7Chapter 4: Characterizing Network TrafficPPT
Identify user communities, data stores, traffic sources and destinations, flow patterns, and performance requirements.
- 8Chapter 5: Designing a Network TopologyPPT
Compare flat, mesh, and hierarchical networks, including the core, distribution, and access layers.
- 9Chapter 6: Designing Models for Addressing and NamingPPT
Develop structured addressing and naming policies, allow room for growth, and organize network and subnet assignments.
- 10Chapter 7: Selecting Bridging, Switching, and Routing ProtocolsPPT
Choose protocols for the logical network design and evaluate how bridging, switching, and routing support design goals.
- 11Chapter 8: Developing Network Security and Management StrategiesPPT
Identify assets and risks, assess security tradeoffs, and plan network protection, monitoring, and management.
- 12Chapter 9: Selecting Technology and Devices for Campus NetworksPPT
Choose campus LAN technologies, devices, and cabling, with attention to availability, scalability, and physical layout.
- 13Chapter 10: Selecting Technologies and Devices for Enterprise NetworksPPT
Evaluate WAN and remote-access technologies, protocols, routers, and switches against business and technical requirements.
- 14Chapter 11: Testing Your Network DesignPPT
Use industry test results, prototype networks, modeling, and performance measurements to validate the proposed design.
- 15Chapter 12: Optimizing Your Network DesignPPT
Improve bandwidth use and quality of service, including IP multicast for multimedia and delay-sensitive applications.
- 16Chapter 13: Documenting Your Network DesignPPT
Prepare proposals and design documents covering requirements, logical and physical design, testing, implementation, and success measures.
Supporting Topics
- 17Wireless NetworkingPPT
Wireless LAN applications, technologies, IEEE 802.11 standards and architecture, and Wi-Fi security.
- 18IPv6 — Addressing and ImplementationPPT
IPv6 addressing and headers, hierarchical routing, network infrastructure requirements, and migration from IPv4.
- 19Introduction to Client/Server Information SystemsPPT
LAN hardware and software, connectivity, client/server analysis and design, and logical and physical architectures. This is the subject of the presentation stored as TopDownDes.ppt.