I am an IT student and lately we were given a case study about network and designing a LAN solution. I admit I am not a network guru and I appreciate some suggestions on some of the things about the case study. I kinda figured out some of the things but some just are mind boggling to me. Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Case Study: Building is 5 levels. The first 3 levels has 5 classrooms including a computer lab. level 4 is a student lounge with 10 computers and a library with 5 computers. Level 5 is the department and administrative offices. There are 16 people in the departments all in all (who needs a PC), an accounts director and a academic director. The computer labs should be equipped with 30 student PCs and 1 tutor PC.
More Details
– Each staff member should have their own PC, access to printer, internal email and student database
– The 10 student lounge computers have access to a paid printer
– Students and staff who has their own laptop can connect to the internet via wireless service
– Student computers should not be able to access official printer, internal staff email and student database
– Staff should be able to share files between departments
– Network should be secured
– There is a surveillance camera on each level
Need suggestions on these
– How many routers, switches, sockets, ISP’s and Gigabit NICs do I need? And what kind?
– Suggestions on the network architecture & topology
– Servers and their locations
– Security measures?
I am not trying to make you guys make my assignment for me. I just need some clarifications/suggestion/help with some of the components of the network so please bear with me.
