Abstract—Network high availability is one of the common problems faced by many university institutions that contribute to operation cost to increase, slow down working speed and increased student’s attrition. Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol provides a better way to business continuity and high availability. The main objectives on implementation of VRRP is to create an alternative path, applying virtual routers, implementation of single IP with multiple IP, together with load balancing technique so as to become healthier and not to be overwhelmed by heavy load during operation. VRRP implementation going to be a preeminent success for private university, this new finding is going to be very useful to overcome an existing problem and leads to the improvement of services and great benefit to business. To prove workability of VRRP, entirely environment will be simulated using GNS3 network simulator, this will be able to emulate the existing problems hence it can demonstrate the aim and defend the expected objectives.

Index Terms—high availability, redundancy, load balancing, business continuity, virtual router redundancy protocol, university

Cite: Joseph Ng Poh Soon, Shaaban Hassan Ramadhan Abdulla, Choo Peng Yin, Wong See Wan, Phan Koo Yuen, and Lim Eng Heng, "Implementing of Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol in a Private University," Journal of Industrial and Intelligent Information, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 255-259, December 2013. doi: 10.12720/jiii.1.4.255-259