Threaded Case Study: Washington School District

lan devices list

LOCATION

DEVICE

QTY

PORTS

COMMENTS

COST PER UNIT

MDF

Cisco 2600 Series Router

1

2 FE, 2 WIC

Variety of WICs for T1 and ISDN, 70Kpps performance

 

MDF

Modem

1

AUX

For remote router maintenance

 

MDF

CSU/DSU

1

 

Connects to router serial port, interfaces T1 connection

 

MDF

Catalyst 2950-48 Switch

(Basic CiscoIOS function)

2

48x 10/100 Mbps

VLAN, 10/100BaseT ports (GBIC), QoS, RMON, Security, Clustering

8.8 Gbps Switch fabric

 

MDF

Administrative server

(Linux)

1

10/100BaseTX NIC

Student tracking, grading, attendance

Other administrative functions

 

MDF

Application server (MS Office, graphics soft...)

(Win2000 Server)

1

10/100/1000BaseSX/LX/ LH/ZX NIC

All computer applications used in school, for ease of use and software upgrading

 

MDF

DNS, DHCP, Email, User Authentication, Web server

(Linux)

1

10/100BaseTX NIC

DNS services individual school; DHCP assigns IP addresses to student and teacher computers

 

Administrative area

 

Network laser printer

 

PC

(Win2000/XP)

1

 

3

10/100BaseTX NIC

10/100BaseTX NIC

Print server for administrative area

 

 

Principal

PC with printer

(Win2000/XP)

1

10/100BaseTX NIC

Computer with small printer for principal

 

Assistant Principal

PC with printer

(Win2000/XP)

1

10/100BaseTX NIC

Computer with small printer for assistant

 

Nurse

PC with printer

(Win98SE/Me)

1

10/100BaseTX NIC

Computer with small printer for nurse

 

 

LOCATION

DEVICE

QTY

PORTS

COMMENTS

COST PER UNIT

Rooms CL1-CL22

student PCs

(Win9x/2000)

teacher PCs

(Win9x/2000)

printers connected to teacher’s PC

Cisco 3550-24 Switch

528

 

22

 

22

 

22

 

Every PC has 10/100BaseTX NIC

 

 

 

24x 10/100 Mbps ports

 

For improved security and cost saving solution, all student and teacher computers and all PCs in Internet access room should be thin clients.

 

Rooms A, P, S1-S6

teacher PCs

(Win9x/2000)

printers connected to teacher’s PC

8

 

8

10/100BaseTX NIC

 

 


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