Windows Server Business Case, Part 1: Network Connectivity
The state university is in the final stages of planning a large Visual Communications College for a group of 250 employees consisting of 150 faculty and 100 staff who will work in two adjacent buildings. Each faculty and staff will use computers that run Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Professional, Fedora Linux, or Mac OS X. The employees work with a variety of software, including word processing, research, databases, spreadsheets, programming software, and mathematical calculation software. The buildings in which they work have no network, and the college plans to network each building and connect both networks. The college has also decided to purchase a Windows Server 2003 and a UNIX server for all to access. Both servers will be in a secure computer room in one of the buildings. In addition, the university plans to connect to an Internet Service Provider so each employee can easily access the Internet.
What equipment must be purchased in order for each employee's computer to be connected to the network? (1.1) To start things off I would ensure that all of the cabling running throughout each building is sufficient for the networks. I would do this by ensuring that either category 5 Ethernet cable or Fiber cables are connecting the computers to the networks. A Star-wired bus topology is the easiest topology to install and maintain. The computers will each need network interface cards (NIC), I would I would suggest either a fiber NIC or Gigabit NIC which would provide 10/100/1000 Mbps auto-negotiation and centralized management over Category 5 or 5e UTP cabling-simplifying your migration to a Gigabit Ethernet later. We will connect the computers to switches which in turn will be connected to the servers and the servers will be connected to routers and then to the ISP via our T-1 connection.
What protocols will you need to set up on each server and on all of the workstations? (1.2a) Since you have both Windows and UNIX running over the same
What equipment must be purchased in order for each employee's computer to be connected to the network? (1.1) To start things off I would ensure that all of the cabling running throughout each building is sufficient for the networks. I would do this by ensuring that either category 5 Ethernet cable or Fiber cables are connecting the computers to the networks. A Star-wired bus topology is the easiest topology to install and maintain. The computers will each need network interface cards (NIC), I would I would suggest either a fiber NIC or Gigabit NIC which would provide 10/100/1000 Mbps auto-negotiation and centralized management over Category 5 or 5e UTP cabling-simplifying your migration to a Gigabit Ethernet later. We will connect the computers to switches which in turn will be connected to the servers and the servers will be connected to routers and then to the ISP via our T-1 connection.
What protocols will you need to set up on each server and on all of the workstations? (1.2a) Since you have both Windows and UNIX running over the same