Hi Phill, Its probably best to have both, wireless access within campus and buildings. Since you would like to house a central server room, and other network equipments, its probably best to go with the fibre between buildings. Fibre is always best for any backbones. You can also complement it with copper ofcourse. Initial laying costs are much less than later. You can prolly make use of the Cisco 2950 series with the sx modules in it, I dunno the model type. This is probably best, unless if you have budjet for getting a cisco 3500 series L3.
I believe SMCs switches with fibres are as good these days. Run Cat 6 for copper and 4 or 8 pair for the fibre. Dinesh. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oscar Plameras Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 9:57 AM To: Phil Scarratt; SLUG Subject: Re: [SLUG] Network Campus computing? Think 'WIRELESS' now ! From: "Phil Scarratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To the network guru's out there > > 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 > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
