An Assessment and Design of Campus Network Using Collapsed-Core Architecture

The use of technological tools in various activities in the teaching and learning process in all academic institutions has increased during the pandemic and under the “New Normal” education. President Ramon Magsaysay State University Castillejos Campus (PRMSU) has an existing network structure to cater to both the academic and administrative services of the campus. With the increasing number of users in the network, there is a need to upgrade the existing campus network design to a hybrid network to cater to the needs of the servicing offices. The proposed network design will guarantee the efficiency of quality services, and reliability of network connections and will support network expansion in the future. A collapsed-core architecture was used in the network design. An analysis of the current network design of the campus has been done that serves as the springboard of the proposed network design. The proposed network design consists of a core switch, firewall switch, and the access layer in the distribution of network connections in the whole administrative and academic buildings.