I’m working on a project at my school, and i need some expert advise from you guys 🙂
My project is to come up with a working Network design for a fictional company.
Here is the scenario:
Company Inc. is located in Stockholm, they are expanding and are therefore planning to open up a branch office in Berlin, about 1500 km from Stockholm. The branch office will be located on the 19th floor in a office building. The floor consists of 25 rooms. The reception is located at the ground floor at a distance of 120 m.
The company may need to hire more people in the future. This will be solved by letting the workers share rooms two and two. The reception will be staffed by two people.
The branch office will basically be marketing and selling the companys product’s (Rubber Ducks) :rolleyes:
The primary job of the Network will be to give access to two resources… one product database, and one customer database.
The companys book keeping and network printer as well…
Microsoft SQL 2000 will be used for the database and the idea is that the main office in Stockholm will also have access to the customer database and book keeping.
The branch office must also have access to the main office since they need to use the Exchange 2000 Server in order to send and receive e-mails.
Furthermore… the employess must have Internet access. There are also plans for an Intranet.
Some sales people will be traveling around in Europe and they must be able to log in to the LAN Network via their Laptops with modems.
END OF SCENARIO!
I belive that two Windows 2000 Servers will be enough to run the databases, book keeping, File sharing, DNS, DHCP, RAS e.t.c.
Is my assumtion correct? is there enough redundancy with two servers?
For the Internet access, must i use NAT or can it be handled by router???
This myay be a stupid question but i need this clarified…
Where do i place the router? before or after the firewall?
I’m a bit confused on this…
The maximum amount of users will be 35 in the Berlin office. Main office in Stockholm have 250 users but my job is only to build a network for Berlin branch office. I’m not sure how to estimate the traffic other than it will consist of product & customer database transfers, web surfing, mail.
It’s NOT a complete scenario where i have to plan every last single OU. Thank God!
More lika a broader plan how to get this branch office LAN up and running.
The WAN Link from Stockholm to Berlin will be a 1 Mb line, Max 2 Mb.
I’m using CAT6 TP cables and a fiber optic to the reception with a media converter.
The OS will be Windows 2003 Advanced Server and Windows 2000 Pro and/or XP.
NO legacy issues and all servers, desktops and laptops are brand new
Well this is my questions so far… I’m very greatfull for any help you can give me!
