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March 5, 2010 at 11:48 PM
stankmaster

Network Design Help Please

by stankmaster . Updated 16 years, 4 months ago

Me and my fellow team members are employees of a consulting firm called IT Network Solutions.
We need to determine:

1. what type of network would best suit the customer
2. If the customer needs a LAN and/or WAN
3. What network Topology? mesh, star etc
4. What cabling media
5. Hardware.

Company INFO

Sports Store, 1 building( 3 stories )

First Floor: RETAIL ( 20 workstations )

Second Floor : management(10 workstations 5 are laptops), HR(5 workstations), Marketing(10 Workstations), Accounting(6 workstations), Administrative Staff(2 workstations), Corporate Security(3 workstations), Telemarketers(10 workstations, 20 employees = 2 shifts of 10 employees)

Basement: 15 workstations and where the server room is located

Requirements =

Must be wifi ready ( ie the laptops )
Owner wants a corporate email server.
Internet connectivity

All of this is for a project and I’m quite stuck. I just don’t know where to start really, If anyone could provide some input if any It would help. I need…

Cabling design for the network
IP addressing
Domains
Protocols

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