Networking Assignment

LukeT

LukeT

LukeT

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Im busy doing some of my Networking Assignment for college which is due in on Tuesday. I've had to discuss the advantages/disadvantages of a network and then discuss Star, Bus and Ring topologys in detail describing how its works ect.... Now i have to reccomend a topology for a student mobile phone company and im a bit stuck!

The company wants to expand and have offices around the U.K with 4 - 6 people in each office and allow them all to be able to communicate. They want a centralised solution with all staff and user accounts managed centrally and it says they feel a Domain would would be the best. They want a centralised database of products, customers and and orders at the main office and and that the web services be installed there too and that all customer access will be directed there. It tells me that the ISP will manage all internet traffic.

I missed 3 weeks because i was away so im struggling a bit but i would be right in thinking that an Extended Star would be the best? Not very sure on how one works though what devices would i need?

any help would be great!

Luke
 
Errrrmmmmm im not really sure...

If one of the offices goes down the others can still send/recive data to/from the main office and you can easily expand if they were to open more offices??
 
Yeah Andr3w i am only just started and ive already missed a bit so im struggling with the network part of the course. How did you find it?
 
Im thinking and Extended Star. Having a Database of the customers orders and details installed at the main office and the PC's there connected to a switch and the backbone. In each of the other branches having the 4 or 5 computers also connected to a switch then to the backbone so they can send/recieve data from the main office and also communicate with the other branches. Correct?

Im not sure where the domain part comes in though.
 
It reads

"Thay want a centralised solution with all staff user accounts managed centrally and feel that a domain would be the best way forward"

Not sure how that would affect the extended star...
 
Right I've had a read around and done as you said and drawn what i think it should look like. After drawing it and looking around it seems to be a mix of multiple stars and a bus backbone. I dont even know if its right but its what i had in my head.



I have each of the PCs in star connected to a switch which is then connected to the backbone which i presume would just be the telephone network. The same is at the main branch but that has the database of customer records and orders.

After looking up the domain bit am I right in thinking that each time one of the employees log onto the network they authenticate to a central sercurity server once which allows them onto the network?

Luke
 
Right cheers thank you very much for your help. Now to type it up and flesh it out a bit.

Is there a spicific name for this type of network or is it just a hybrid of a star and a bus?

I just realised your from Hetton-le-Hole im from Gateshead..small world.
 
Had another think and come up with this type of arrangement. Its a collection of stars the same as before with switches at the centre of each branch but instead of the branches connecting to a back bone they all connect to the main server/database at the main office.



Would each of the branches be able to communicate through the network or am i barking up totally the wrong tree?

Luke
 
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