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1. Practical Network DesignLFTSP 1998 IS 4.2 Major Greg Phillips
Royal Military College of Canada
Electrical and Computer Engineering
greg.phillips@rmc.ca
+01-613-541-6000 ext. 6190
2. Network Design Process
3. Assessing User Requirements Key issue for users is typically application availability
Key parameters of application availability are
response time
throughput
reliability
4. Assessing Costs Equipment hardware and software costs
Performance trade-off costs
Installation costs
Expansion costs
Support costs
Cost of downtime
Opportunity costs
Sunken costs
5. User Equipment
6. LAN Topologies
7. Infrastructure Equipment
8. Network Operating Systems Typically provide:
network level authentication
file sharing
print services
mail
directory services
Examples:
Banyan Vines
Novell Netware
Microsoft NT Networking
Internet protocols (require TCP/IP)
NIS, NFS, lpr, SMTP/sendmail, DNS, HTTP
9. Small Administrative Office
10. Hub Function
11. Small Engineering Office
12. LAN Switch Function
13. Small Office + Internet Access
14. Small Office + Internet Presence
15. Larger Office or Campus
16. The World
17. Practical NetworkingLFTSP 1998 IS 4.2 http://www.cisco.com/univercd/data/doc/cisintwk.htm
18. Bits ‘n’ Pieces