Sunil Seneviratne¹ and Rohan de Silva², ¹Central Queensland University Melbourne, Australia, ²Central Queensland University Sydney, Australia

Local Area Networks (LANs) provide necessary infrastructure and services required for organizations to conduct their businesses efficiently and securely. While a small LAN could be designed and deployed in ad-hoc fashion, an enterprise LAN should be designed systematically starting from analyzing the business and technical requirements and constraints.

The Top-down network design methodology has been an excellent way to design a new network, however it has disadvantages considering its time-consuming process of designing networks. The organizational structures change in a fast pace in these days. These changes require their networks also to be realigned at the same pace. In this climate, a time-consuming design approach such as the Top-down design approach may not be the best option.

In this paper, we propose a framework of a network design methodology that could be used for quickly designing a LAN for an organization in this landscape while satisfying their business and technical requirements.

LAN, Network design, Object-connectivity, Top- down network design.