I am working at a school that is currently expanding. There are some new buildings being added to the campus (almost finished) that are now being wired. The question is what is the best way to wire to an existing network, considering the following:
1. The main existing building (call it the library) houses 3 network switches, along with 2 servers (firewall and other) and the adsl connection. In this building there is also 1 lab (15 machines) and 15 library machines on the network. A few admin computers and links from staff rooms in other buildings also come here - nothing else major though.
2. The new building will house the lab (will be moved). Library machines will stay put. The lab being in the new building will mean that there will be fairly heavy traffic through to the library server.
3. ADSL connection is not likely to move.
I am thinking of mounting a secondary switch(s) in the new building, with an uplink to the existing network, however, what sort of uplink should it be:
1. Is it worth putting fibre in? 2. What does it take to make a gigabit network instead of 100Mbit? 3. Any other suggestions?
TIA Fil
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