Resumo:
In this proposal the firsts tasks made were the survey and the analysis of the users and university’s requirements, and following the traffic and existing network characteristics. After that it was possible to propose some changes in the network in order to improve its performance, management and the security for the data flowing along the network.
Therefore, it was made a detailed analysis of the programs and traffic generated by users, before planning the changes in the network, defining the technologies and the equipments to be used. Through making these tasks we realize that the project planning comes before its implementation.
One of the objectives of this dissertation is to show that the centralization of the technical and human resources is a good option for the university, providing an improvement on the services made available for the users, for example, the technical support and the access to the Internet.
This proposal suggests the centralization of the corporative servers in a sole room, called Server Farm. In this place also will be located all the equipments that will help the network administrators in managing and monitoring the network with better efficiency.
This work supplies an action plan to improve the performance in accessing the Internet and also to incentive the information exchange in the university private network. The plan suggest the use of equipments that will provide the conditions for the active management of the network as well as to prevent problems regarding the security of the data, for instance, viruses or the use of the network resources by non-authorized users or with bad intensions.
In the conclusion are mentioned the performance tests that should be made in the network after, the completion of the suggested solutions in this paper. Many subjects for future studies also are listed, with respect to management and information security in the university’s network.
