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| nojoom 2001-05-25, 1:13 am |
| hi
My name is Aisha and im student at college.. im doing a project on network
and i have problem in doing the project.. i would be thankful if you
could help me . the proplem is as below..
the lower college of Technologey (LCT)are currently thinkinig of upgrading
their computer systems to enable them to teach their courses more
efficiently snd effectively.
There are 12 colleges in the LCT.These colleges are spread across the
country - some are hundreds of kilometre apart . The colleges communicate by
attaching a few machines via modems to the national telephone company (
Tisalot)and using email.
In each college there are several buildings which have computer labs in
them . Some of these building are over 100 metres apart.
In the computer labs the machines are 'stand - alone' ( they are not
network)
All application programs ( e.g word , Excel) are stored on every C drive.
All student document files are saved on the internal C drive or on floppy
disk.
To print a document it must be copied to floppy and taken to a machine
with a printer attached . Each lab only has one machine with a printer
attached.
if you have employed to give advice on what kind of LAN/ WAN the LCT
should consider as a replacement for the current environment.
first of all i want you to describe to me the problems with the present
environmet.
and then describe the advantage of networking.
finally suggest a possible choice of networking technology within each
college:
1. wiring
2. type of network ( peer to peer or client/ server)
3. network operating system
4. Topology
5. linking buildings
suggest a better way of connecting colleges
please replay to me as soon as possible.
thank you
yours faithfully
Aisha | |
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| You need to set up a network, preferably a Pure Windows2000 network. Using active Directory you can make one network(Domain). Using Cat5 UTP/STP cabling for each segment of the network with 100BaseT network cards (100Mbs) in each machine. You can then join all the different segments/buildings with a couple of "leased lines", which will be offered by the local telephone of telecommunications company. In the case of the buildings being between 100-1000 meters apart, you could use Fiber Optic cabling to connect the buildings. This would mean that there would be no problem with attenuation.
The advatages of this network would be that you could communicate with any computer within the domain at any time (once the computer is switched on!!) and also advantages include Remote Administration, BackUp, Printing from any machine (etc)
The OS's you could use would be Windows2000 Advanced Server (SP2) for the Domain Server and Windows2000 Professional (SP2) and possably Windows98 for the workstations
Also, TCP/IP should be used. Private IP addressing could be used (eg) 172.16.17.101 for each segment of the network, and you could use NAT (Network Address Translation) for Internet Access (A good firewall could do this)
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| Hmm...I can't recommend leased lines. Too expensive. Unless there is an unlimited budget (which there almost never is).
You could use a couple of Cisco PIX boxes to form a VPN over the internet. Use L2TP with IPSEC. This would also allow all campuses to be interconnected.
Otherwise, use frame-relay. Its perfect for linking multiple sites together, and isn't nearly as expensive as dedicated T1/T3s.
-bbb | |
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Originally posted by bbb
Hmm...I can't recommend leased lines. Too expensive. Unless there is an unlimited budget (which there almost never is).
You could use a couple of Cisco PIX boxes to form a VPN over the internet.
sorry bbb, I was'nt thinking about the US when I replyed to this  !!
Over here, internet access is charged by the minute  , there is no flat rate internet access by any ISP yet |
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