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Suppose, you are hired by a small company to install a small LAN for its 20 wind

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Question

Suppose, you are hired by a small company to install a small LAN for its 20 windows computers. Develop a simple LAN for that company and calculate the total cost considering cable types, hubs/switches/routers and so on. You can assume that the company has no network today and that the office is small enough that you do not need to worry about cable length. You are required to show your proposed LAN design, overall selection of networking devices and the overall price for setting up the LAN. Justify your design for LAN as well.

Explanation / Answer

The fundamental network looks like a 20 machine network connected using switch. To make sure further upgrade option, I would counsel to utilize a bigger switch then it is really needed right now. I suppose that every computer requires a network card and that we require 2 backup cards if one is departing down or we require adding another PC without waiting for an extended time. The length of the network cables have to be around 10 meters in order to arrive at every workstation. As cables can be destroyed simply, there have to be a backup of about 20% of the required cables.

We only require transmission rates like 10/100Mbps since a small company essentially does not post an amount of data that would validate a different method with much upper costs.

Components:

24 port switch 10/100Mbps         2400.00Rs

20 NICs 10/100Mbps PCI               2000.00Rs

22 CAT-5 Network Cables (10m)                1500.00Rs

Total                                                  5900.00Rs

These costs only decide the fundamental hardware that is required. As well, there are a lot higher costs for building and keep the entire network.