Networking infrastructure decision at Well-Known Institute of Management

Abstract

Well-Known Institute of Management is situated in New Delhi, India, and offers a 2-year fully residential post-graduate program in Management (MBA) and a doctoral-level program. While the permanent and fully residential campus of the institute with state-of-the-art facilities is under construction (expected to be completed by June 2024), the institute is currently functioning from a rented transit campus. With the increase in intake in July 2020 and subsequently in 2021, the total number of students in the campus is going to increase from 240 to 400. Two buildings are hired on rent which is 1 km away from the transit campus. The IT team of the institute is asked to conduct a survey, analyze, and propose a solution to provide networking and Internet facilities for 150 students who are going to reside in the newly hired hostel buildings. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the networking requirement has changed. Dr Vivek Gupta, Assistant Professor in the area of IT and systems at Well-Known Institute of Management, is heading the IT team of the institute. Puzzled between various options of buying network infrastructure on premise or buying it as a service (infrastructure as a service), Dr Gupta needs to do a thorough analysis before recommending a feasible and plausible solution.