LAB 3 - GAME DAY NETWORK DESIGN: EVENT BRIEF      cyberteaches.com/networking/lab-3
Ridgeview Regional Esports Invitational - Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
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VENUE
  Gym ............. 40 m x 30 m. Players' stage on the north end, spectator
                    bleachers on the south side.
  Lobby ........... next to the gym, separated by a concrete block wall.
                    Spectators wait and watch the stream on a large screen.
  Broadcast booth . above the gym's north end, 25 m of cable from the stage.
  Network closet .. behind the stage; holds the school's router and firewall.

USER GROUPS AND NEEDS
  Players ......... 4 teams x 5 players = 20 school-owned gaming PCs on stage.
                    Matches need high frame rates and low input latency. Players
                    reach the local game server only (no general internet).
  Coaches ......... 4 coaches, each with a laptop, moving along the sideline.
                    Coaches open the team stats dashboard on the local server.
                    Coaches must NOT reach the judges' scoring system.
  Judges .......... 6 judges walking the stage with tablets to enter scores
                    in the scoring app on the local server.
  Event staff ..... 5 staff laptops (mobile) to run online check-in and the
                    schedule (internet, HTTPS), plus 1 management workstation
                    in the network closet.
  Livestream ...... 2 streaming PCs in the broadcast booth and 3 network
                    cameras on the gym floor. The stream uploads to the internet
                    and must not be interrupted.
  Local server .... 1 server in the network closet running three services:
                      game server ......... UDP port 7777
                      stats dashboard ..... HTTPS, TCP port 443
                      judges' scoring app . HTTPS, TCP port 8443
  Spectators ...... Up to 250 phones: about 180 in the bleachers and 70 in the
                    lobby. Internet access only. Must never reach event systems.

EQUIPMENT AVAILABLE
  - Managed 24-port switches. On each switch, reserve 1 port as the uplink
    toward the router.
  - Wireless access points (WAPs). Plan on 40 mobile devices or 20 laptops per
    WAP. Each WAP can broadcast up to 4 SSIDs, each mapped to its own VLAN.
  - Twisted pair cable (runs up to 100 m) and one router with a firewall.

ADDRESSING
  - Event systems: 10.60.0.0/24, to be divided into subnets.
  - Spectator Wi-Fi: 10.61.0.0/24 (already assigned; do not subnet it).
  - In every host count, include one address for the segment's default gateway.

RULES FROM THE TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR
  1. A player PC must never depend on Wi-Fi.
  2. Spectators get internet only, with a captive portal and a 3-hour session
     limit.
  3. Only the management workstation may administer the switches, router, and
     server, and only with encrypted protocols.
  4. Coaches cannot see or change judges' scores.