This repository explores enterprise network design concepts that later informed the HybridOps platform.
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Enterprise network architecture lab exploring traffic segmentation, routing resilience and high-availability switching design.
The project models a scalable network environment using Cisco Packet Tracer to demonstrate common enterprise networking patterns including VLAN segmentation, dynamic routing and redundancy mechanisms.
The lab simulates a multi-layer enterprise network architecture including:
• Access layer switching for endpoint connectivity
• Distribution layer routing and redundancy
• Core routing and external connectivity
• Wireless infrastructure integration
• Voice network segmentation
Access switches provide endpoint connectivity and segmentation.
Key configurations include:
• VLAN segmentation for data, voice and wireless traffic
• Access and trunk port configuration
• Spanning Tree PortFast and BPDU Guard for edge protection
• Voice VLAN configuration for IP telephony devices
Distribution switches provide routing, aggregation and redundancy.
Key capabilities:
• Inter-VLAN routing
• OSPF dynamic routing configuration
• HSRP gateway redundancy
• Trunk links to access layer switches
The core router provides external connectivity and routing aggregation.
Capabilities include:
• Layer 3 routing between internal networks
• OSPF adjacency with distribution layer
• WAN edge connectivity simulation
Wireless connectivity is integrated using:
• Wireless LAN Controller simulation
• VLAN integration with wired infrastructure
• Segmented wireless traffic routing
The lab includes a basic voice architecture.
Features include:
• Dedicated Voice VLAN segmentation
• DHCP configuration for IP phones
• Telephony service configuration
• IP phone auto-registration
Dynamic routing is implemented using OSPF.
The configuration demonstrates:
• OSPF router ID configuration
• Multi-area network advertisements
• Route propagation between distribution and core layers
• Simulated WAN connectivity
Redundancy is implemented using:
• HSRP for gateway redundancy
• Multiple distribution switches
• Spanning Tree protections
• EtherChannel link aggregation
These mechanisms demonstrate common enterprise high-availability design patterns.
The network architecture is implemented using:
• Cisco Packet Tracer simulation
• Multi-layer switching topology
• Simulated WAN edge connectivity
• Voice and wireless service integration
This project explores foundational concepts in enterprise network architecture including segmentation, redundancy and scalable routing design.
Many of the architectural ideas explored here later informed the networking design patterns used in the HybridOps platform.