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WEEK 1 Your manager has tasked you to create two network diagrams thatillustrate the Remote Employee Connection options for VPNconnectivity. These diagrams will assist IT in setting up employees andbranch offices to remotely access the company’s intranet. You will usethese illustrations in your Week 2 Remote Employee Connectionpresentation.Remote WAN access for employees from home or on the road: Theremote employee must have access to the public Internet through anInternet Service Provider (broadband cable or DSL), Cellular ServiceProvider (smartphone, cellular adapter, or cellular hotspot), or otherservice from a third-party provider (public or private Wi-Fi hotspot). Thecompany provides the VPN client software for users to install on theirmobile devices. With the VPN client, users log in using their companycredentials (user name and password) to a VPN server on the companynetwork. The company Active Directory controller authenticates theuser credentials. The VPN tunnel allows a remote user to securelyaccess the company’s intranet, services, and network resources overthe public Internet as if they were working from the premises.Remote site-to-site WAN access for branch offices: The remote site hasa site-to-site VPN connection that lets branch office use the publicInternet as a conduit for accessing the main office’s intranet. This setupeliminates the need for each computer to run VPN client software as if itwere on a remote-access VPN.Create 2 Visio® diagrams illustrating the following scenarios.• Remote WAN access for employees from home and on the road:Create an end-to-end (from PC to VPN server) networkdiagram showing firewalls, routers, switches, hosts and connections forremote access from home or on the road to the main office VPN serverand intranet. Include a variety of Internet access endpoints, such asbroadband cable, DSL, cellular, and Wi-Fi hotspots.• Remote site-to-site WAN access from a branch office: An end-to-end(from PC to VPN server) network diagram showing firewalls, routers,switches, hosts and connections for remote access from a branch officesite across a site-to-site VPN tunnel to the main office VPN server andintranet. Include a variety of Internet access endpoints, such as T1carrier, enterprise cellular, satel

lite, and cable broadband.Copy and paste your network diagrams into Microsoft® PowerPointpresentation slides. WEEK 2Your manager has tasked you with creating a Remote EmployeeConnection presentation for IT. This presentation will assist IT in settingup remote (work-from-home) employees to access the company’sintranet. These employees will use a VPN connection from their PC inhome to a remote VPN server located in the employee’s work campus.Refer to the Visio tutorial and virtual desktop resource with Visio inWeek 1. You will also use the diagrams you created in Week 1,incorporating the instructor feedback.Create a 5- to 10-page Microsoft PowerPoint presentation usingVisio® including the following:• WAN access options from the home to an ISP (Internet ServiceProvider) from a variety of endpoints, including broadband cable, DSL,cellular, and Wi-Fi hotspots• Using Visio: Illustration of remote WAN access from home or on theroad from Week 1.• WAN access options from a branch work campus to an ISP (assumea different ISP with business/enterprise access such as T1 carrier,enterprise cellular, satellite, and cable broadband)• Using Visio: Illustration of remote site-to-site WAN access for branchoffices from Week 1.• Major TCP/IP protocols with which the home PC is involved, from themoment it boots up until its first IPv4 packet reaches the VPN server.• Major routing protocols involved in building the forwarding tables inan IPv4 network• Using Visio: Illustration of how the first IPv4 is forwarded through thenetwork, showing:• Source and destination IPv4 addresses• Source and destination MAC addresses for the initial 2 hops in theheader of the packet• Entries in the routers’ forwarding tables• Major routing protocols involved in building the forwarding tables inan IPv6 network• Using Visio: Illustration of how the first IPv6 is forwarded through thenetwork, showing:• Source and destination IPv6 addresses• Source and destination MAC addresses for the initial 2 hops in theheader of the packet• Entries in the routers’ forwarding tablesNote: It is recommended that Visio® be used to create networkdiagrams for the presentation.Copy and paste your network diagrams into Microsoft® PowerPointpresentation. Do not submit Visio® files.