Enterprise Solutions Network Design

This documentation gives details of L&M Enterprise Solutions network design capable of providing secure voice and data services for 100 users. The network provides 100 Mbps connectivity between three locations consisting of a total of four office buildings, and 10 Mbps desktop connections. FDDI service is used at the location with buildings #1 and Building #2 due to its performance and scalability features, and Fast Ethernet service is used at the other two locations (Building #3 and Building #4). Both backbone technologies are reasonably priced and can handle applications that include large files, multimedia, and Internet access.

1. Introduction to the design explanation of equipment and software used.

L&M Enterprise Solutions network is compose of remote desktop within each buildings, a printer / fax servers, local switches, network servers, routers and firewalls. Each computer networks within a location resides on a LAN network that is connected to the entire WAN network.

The desktops are Dell manufactured, Intel Pentium Dual Core, 4GB memory, 750GB hard drive, dual monitor with optical drive. The operating systems are windows 7 XP and windows Vista.

The printers, faxes and scanners combination is HP manufactured Office Jet Pro 8500 series. Using a print and fax spooler software application, each computer networks route files to the print server connected to LAN network.

The switches and routers are Cisco manufactured. Cisco 7609 series across the LAN / WAN network and catalyst 6500 series switches within the local LAN locations are deployed.

The server manufacture is HP; model 487502-001 BN Proliant G6. This is a 2x Xeon 2.26GHz – 4 GB DDR3 devices. Two servers per location are deployed. One server is available for web traffic and the other server is for email, faxing and other communication. Each LAN server serves as the communicating points between the LAN and the WAN infrastructure.

The firewalls are manufactured by Cisco;...