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Homework Statement
An estate agency with five branches in the south west of England: Bath, Bristol, Cheltenham, Exeter, and Plymouth. Each branch has three dpeartments; the sales department, which may employ up to twelve people; the accounts department which may employ up to three people; the mortgages department which may also employ up to 3 people. Each branch occupies one building. As part of a general upgrade to the computing facilities, the estate agency requires that the computers for all employees in each branch be networked, and that all branches be networked.
Report should consist of :
Diagramatic description of the network
List of configuration commands for the computer and network hardware
*Both of these not important at the minute*
The Attempt at a Solution
Right i don't neccesarily want an answer here, i just want someone to say if I am going along the right lines around here. I am thinking at the moment that the most appropriate solution to this answer would be to have a set of LAN's in each of the branches that the company has. Then using routers and hubs (or small switches) to help create a WAN, allowing connection between the branches themselves, and also using a leased line for added security for the WAN. The question doesn't say anything about the size of the company, nor the amount of money that the company wishes to spend so I am assuming that a leased line would be alright? There was also the (more probable) possibility of using VPN but within the lectures, the lecturer had never even mention VPN so I am assuming that he doesn't want us to look into that as the course is for people who have never done anything within Networks before.
Is that all sounding correct? Like i said i want to know if this is the right sort of network to be doing so that i can get on with writing the report.
If you can give any advice, i'd be delighted.
Cheers