Week3

NETW410 Week 3 Lab Report

Your Name Pierre Dumond

NETW410, Professor’s Name

Lab 3: Designing the Infrastructure for the Network

Lab Report

1.Draw a diagram the new network. (10 points)

2. Will the current horizontal cabling suffice for the new network? If it will not, what type of cable should be used for the horizontal cabling? Provide detailed specifications for this cable. (10 points)

It will not - recommendation is to use at least 1 Gb/s capacity in the horizontal cabling system, in other words, Class E / Category 6. Building backbone cabling and campus backbone cabling subsystems consisting of single-mode (SM) fiber optic cables

3. Should fiber optic horizontal cabling be installed but not terminated as future proofing for a future higher-speed network? What is the cost difference between copper UTP cable and fiber optic cable? Use this model to compute the relative cost - http://www.fols.org/cost_model/ (10 points)

No, whenever using any type of fiber optic cable, their need to be terminated. The termination provides connections from the cable to a patch panel. Fiber is also double the cost of UTP.

4. Does this network require an access layer? What devices would operate at the access layer? Draw a diagram of these devices at the access layer. Label all of the devices. (10 points)

Yes it require a access layer

5. Does this network require a distribution layer? What devices would operate at the distribution layer? What would these devices be responsible for? Could the access and distribution layer be combined into a single layer? Draw a diagram of these devices at the distribution layer. Label all of the devices. (10 points)

* Yes it does require a distribution layer

* The devices are label in the diagram draw

* Yes the two can be combined as shown in the diagram below

6. Does this network need a core layer? What devices would operate at the core layer? (10 points)

Yes it does need a core layer looking...