Designing a Small Business Intranet
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Based on a set of network requirements for a small business I have created an intranet to satisfy the businesses specifications. The network design utilizes a private address space, layer 2 switches, layer 3 routing switches and firewalls. I will describe several design aspects of the network including the wiring design, IP addressing design, redundancy design and the Internet network design.
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Business Requirements
- Company X is moving into a new three floor building.
- Four hundred users will work in this new location.
- A computer room will be built on the 1st floor to house servers.
- There is currently no data communication cabling in the site.
The business requires a private Intranet design to support the following requirements:
- Twenty servers in the computer room (all applications are TCP)
- Redundant network within the building (redundant NIC’s in the servers)
- Very high speed access to all users PC’s to support data transfers of terabits of information between users.
- Very scalable network.
- Printers on each floor.
- Outbound Internet access for users.
- Inbound Internet access to a couple Web servers.
