Design IT bought a 56’x 36’ space for their growing business and requested me to place a bid on a consulting as an initial step to designing their network. The space purchased include; four cubicles, one office, one server room, one reception desk and one conference room. They also have 3 servers, which is 1 Web Server Microsoft IIS Server, a file Server, Microsoft Server 2008 and Server – Server 2008 small Business Server. The company asks for the new design to have the following: High speed Internet access, Firewall, Antivirus/ Malware protection, Six Computers, Three color laser printers, and Wireless access for portable devices
Design IT requests the consideration of all interconnected devices and wiring, along with speeds for best performance.…show more content… The network will only allow employees that have granted authorization to prevent unauthorized users from abusing the system. The network will be made compatible for additional equipment and future upgrades that can also be cost effective because we wouldn’t have to necessarily redesign the database.
I propose a star topology because of the outline of the business needs and size of the company. Devices will be independently link to a hub or a Multi-station Access Unit so data can flow to other related devices on the network. The star topology will shrink the possibility of network failure because all devices on the network rely back to the central node that way only a particular port will fail, not all will be affected.
The advantages of using the Star Topology:
1. Each device simply requires a cable run between it and the concentrator device.
2. Devices can be added or removed without interfering with other devices.
3. If one device fails, the rest of the network devices will continue as if nothing happened.
4. High speed performance, 10mbps to 100mbps or more.
5. Data packets travel faster because they do not have to pass through any unnecessary
