Looking for some help with a networking solution

[Angst]

Currently studying at college without a tutor or i.t. dept so im having to try and self tutor. I have just got a bit stuck on a networking unit, I have been asked to develop a network to fit these requirements;
• One network must support over 25 iphone/ipad developers.
• One network must support at least 10 blackberry developers and 5 android developers.
• One will be for central financial and management with at least 10 devices.
• Conventional LAN but must support access for wireless devices.
• Each system connected to a core router which will provide access to the internet.
• On the core system there will be an infrastructure server and file storage server.

I am not sure if each network needs its own server or if all 3 will run directly off of the central infrastructure server, any help would be greatly apreciated.

 

[16-bit]

Does it say why it matters if they are developers?
Unless they have special requirements all it really needs is:
1 Server(Win2008Std setup as a Domain Controller handling DNS & DHCP)
Router
Couple of business grade AP's depending on the site
A switch to connect it all together
And also a backup solution but that depends on your preference (cloud, or what I prefer a seperate box with DPM replicating to a box offsite)

Well that's a basic way of looking at it without knowing anything else.

Anything else like emails?

 

[Angst]

Does it say why it matters if they are developers?
Unless they have special requirements all it really needs is:
1 Server(Win2008Std setup as a Domain Controller handling DNS & DHCP)
Router
Couple of business grade AP's depending on the site
A switch to connect it all together
And also a backup solution but that depends on your preference (cloud, or what I prefer a seperate box with DPM replicating to a box offsite)

Well that's a basic way of looking at it without knowing anything else.

Anything else like emails?

Thanks a lot , this is the only other requirements i could find "The solution must have suitable technology to support a wired LAN, as well as a secure connection to the internet. The system is to be in two different business units on a trading estate with three different networks."

 

[SuperBOB]

Currently studying at college without a tutor or i.t. dept so im having to try and self tutor. I have just got a bit stuck on a networking unit, I have been asked to develop a network to fit these requirements;
• One network must support over 25 iphone/ipad developers.
• One network must support at least 10 blackberry developers and 5 android developers.
• One will be for central financial and management with at least 10 devices.
• Conventional LAN but must support access for wireless devices.
• Each system connected to a core router which will provide access to the internet.
• On the core system there will be an infrastructure server and file storage server.

I am not sure if each network needs its own server or if all 3 will run directly off of the central infrastructure server, any help would be greatly apreciated.

Mention the security precautions you will take in providing wireless for the iPhone/iPad dev's - something like the below,

1. Hidden SSID
2. Mac address restriction
3. A tough rotating password
4. Isolated onto its own VLAN away from other LAN traffic

Its not clear from the language used but it sounds like they want you to say 1 physical network and several logical networks. I would just blab on about how you will isolate each business area into its own VLAN and share resources such as the server between them.

 

[Angst]

Ok, so are we possibly looking at something resembling this using 3 vpn's?


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[16-bit]

Ok, so are we possibly looking at something resembling this using 3 vpn's?

Do you mean VLAN's(VPN's are used to access the network externally)?

Didn't think about it in a college question sort of way, the certain impracticalness of it .

The router would be a modem as the firewall does the routing.

Unsure why you would want to VLAN it, maybe if you want to separate guest access/non business access then I would use it as it isn't really confidential data and they are all part of one company.

From an IT support guy point of view a small business wouldn't separate the infrastructure server and the file server to save money and use SATA instead of SCSI as SATA speeds are fine for these numbers.

EDIT: apart from that it looks good, although I would get hold of visio to make a sexy network diagram.

 

[Angst]

Do you mean VLAN's(VPN's are used to access the network externally)?

Didn't think about it in a college question sort of way, the certain impracticalness of it .

The router would be a modem as the firewall does the routing.


Unsure why you would want to VLAN it, maybe if you want to separate guest access/non business access then I would use it as it isn't really confidential data and they are all part of one company.

From an IT support guy point of view a small business wouldn't separate the infrastructure server and the file server to save money and use SATA instead of SCSI as SATA speeds are fine for these numbers.

Ok thanks, yes i meant vlan and since when was any college practical . I'll change the specification to sata then and combine the servers.

 

[16-bit]

Most servers don't really use scsi now it's generally either SAS(Serial Attached SCSI) or SATA (raided of course).

Again they are probably looking for more networky side and but you can always do teaming on the fileserver for better throughput/transfer speeds.