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by plrod1906

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My network has 250 nodes, made of 80/20 ratio macs and pcs. we are a growing advertising company that wants to improve our overall network performance, security, and remote access. As we grow, we deploy more PC to our new user.

We have a simple network,where all users are basically connected to a switch panel, and a ISP for internet. I am looking for ideas on how I can improve the network performance, and security.

We only have one router that interfaces with the ISP lines.

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by madroxxx

Do you have Servers? If so what operating systems are they running? What functions do they perform?

by anandm

I will recommend using a Netscreen Box, that will provide firewall security, allow to maintain VPN tunnels with remote officeses, as and when required and also allow remote users to connect using IPSec tunnel. Using netscreen is low in cost too. So your ISP will connect to Netscreen's WAN side and the entire network will sit behind the Netscreen's trusted ( LAN) side.

I am not sure if you agree, but for large networks segmenting the network into multiple domains will reduce the overall network broadcast traffic and will also make user account and policy management easier.

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