Reference no: EM1350899

Q1) Consider a small startup company that is interested in setting up a network for their business. The company has 20 employees located on two floors of a building. Each employee has a laptop, desktop and a phone on their desk. There are four servers, the first for engineering development, the second for manufacturing, the third for the company's external website, and the fourth for management, sales, marketing, and personnel databases. There should be three LANs, one for engineers, one for manufacturing, and one for administration. There should be wired and wireless connections within the company as well as external Internet and telephone connections. Describe the networking requirements for this company. Design a network, and create system configuration specifications for laptops and servers that will meet the business requirements of the company. For each component in the network, three different vendor systems must be identified with their features and costs. Then, one of the vendor products should be selected that best suits the business needs, giving appropriate reasons for the selection. The design should take into account fixed and recurring costs. Then compute the overall cost, including installation, configuration, maintenance, ISP, and miscellaneous costs. Do not consider depreciation in the cost computation.