Networking
Phase 1: Identifying Requirements, Putting the Network Together
Scenario
NuggetLabs Industries is growing significantly. Due to space limitations, five employees currently share single cubicles…at the same time. While this is great for team building, these space limitations are now impacting business productivity. NuggetLabs has now leased an additional office building roughly 20Km from their headquarters location. While this office will eventually connect to the HQ office, it will initially be set up independently. NuggetLabs Industries has heard rumors of your ninja-like network consultation skills and has agreed to pay you an excessive amount of money to design and build their network infrastructure.
Gathering Information
To help guide this initial configuration, you‘ve assembled a list of requirements based on various meetings with management.
* The new office will initially house 75 employees, each with their own Cisco IP Phone and PC. This office may eventually scale to 200 employees over 5 years. * The Windows admins are planning to install a new pair of redundant servers at the new office. They plan to manage all the IP addresses for DHCP on these servers and are waiting for you to tell them what IP address range they should use. * Windows admins: Jeff Service - (602) 555-1293, Mike Pack (480) 555-9382. * The new office is a two story building with the Main Distribution Frame (MDF) in the northwest corner of the first floor. Because of a workman’s strike, poor planning, and other human issues, the Intermediate Distribution Frame (IDF) on the second floor was installed in the southeast corner of the second floor, beyond the reach of typical Ethernet standards. The majority of the employees (roughly 50) will sit on the main floor while the remainder will sit on the second floor. The building contractor has already run the cabling - a single Cat6 Ethernet connection to each cubical / office space which terminates to patch
Scenario
NuggetLabs Industries is growing significantly. Due to space limitations, five employees currently share single cubicles…at the same time. While this is great for team building, these space limitations are now impacting business productivity. NuggetLabs has now leased an additional office building roughly 20Km from their headquarters location. While this office will eventually connect to the HQ office, it will initially be set up independently. NuggetLabs Industries has heard rumors of your ninja-like network consultation skills and has agreed to pay you an excessive amount of money to design and build their network infrastructure.
Gathering Information
To help guide this initial configuration, you‘ve assembled a list of requirements based on various meetings with management.
* The new office will initially house 75 employees, each with their own Cisco IP Phone and PC. This office may eventually scale to 200 employees over 5 years. * The Windows admins are planning to install a new pair of redundant servers at the new office. They plan to manage all the IP addresses for DHCP on these servers and are waiting for you to tell them what IP address range they should use. * Windows admins: Jeff Service - (602) 555-1293, Mike Pack (480) 555-9382. * The new office is a two story building with the Main Distribution Frame (MDF) in the northwest corner of the first floor. Because of a workman’s strike, poor planning, and other human issues, the Intermediate Distribution Frame (IDF) on the second floor was installed in the southeast corner of the second floor, beyond the reach of typical Ethernet standards. The majority of the employees (roughly 50) will sit on the main floor while the remainder will sit on the second floor. The building contractor has already run the cabling - a single Cat6 Ethernet connection to each cubical / office space which terminates to patch