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 >
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