FYP ideas

raTTbaiT

raTTbaiT

raTTbaiT

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Hi guys... bit of an odd one, but i dont know where else to put it :)

I'm doing a Computer Networks & Security BSc at uni. I'm in my 3rd year on industrial placement with about 6 months left to go, after which i head back to do my final year project and exams.

What i'm struggling with is a topic on which to base the project. The curriculum loosely follows the CCNA (pre new 2020 exam) track in the first year, then expanding out to CCNP R&S concepts and CCNA Sec in the 2nd year. so ideally whatever i choose needs to fall within those skillsets for me to have the best chance of a good mark :)

Although its maybe jumping the gun a bit, what id like to do is perhaps get a firm idea of what to base the project on and do whatever testing i need to do prior to leaving here. I have a free run at the entire catalog of Cisco products, so it makes sense to use it whilst i can!

Any ideas would be awesome :)
 
Presumably there are limitations on what you can do, and it has to cover a minimum level of difficulty and involve a certain list of technologies. Can you help us out with what they are?
 
Im not 100% sure myself, i was banking on others who have perhaps been through the same process knowing a little more than myself. I think its safe to assume that the expectation is that any technology used will be something touched on by the curriculum or at least from the networking arena.

From other conversations ive had, it seems the most common type of project is a report on a given use case, analysis of the various solutions, then a recommendation on solution and implementation The only real expectation is that it has enough meat to satisfy a 10k word count. There is no minimum or maximum difficulty, although you are assigned an FYP supervisor who has to sign off on my proposed a topic, so it has to be relatively difficult for it to get the green light.
 
How about a SD-WAN deployment with redundant routers at a data centre location, and then the rugged LTE ISR 1100s out in the field. Two LTE carriers per ISR for resilience tunnelling all traffic back to your DC for hitless failover of e.g. voice traffic. Then you include monitoring the status of the deployed devices, and build something for generating configurations for new locations based on the feature where a USB stick can be loaded with a config that is applied on first-boot. Add in managed Wi-Fi and then talk about how it's a way to get secure networks deployed rapidly to support public health initiatives.

It's quite tricky to have a stab at what sort of project you're expected to come up with, it's been ages since I touched the CCNA but I'd assume SD-WAN is in there now.
 
Thanks for the suggestion. Sadly (because i think it would be a **** hot topic to do a report on) i think what you mentioned is perhaps a bit beyond the expectations and certainly beyond my skillset. I believe SD-wan, ACI/DNA starts to crop up in the new CCNP ENCOR. As the curriculum is based on the pre 2020 stuff, the CCNP level material ive covered is strictly R&S.

I was thinking perhaps exploring the differences between HW and SW firewall solutions. Outline a use case then come up with some sort of testing methodology to see which solution best suits a given application. If i could find a way to simulate connections/concurrent IPSEC tunnels perhaps i could use SNMP and a network monitor like PRTG to see how various loads affect each firewall? Maybe use Kali to fling some nasties at them and see what they do/dont catch?
 
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