how would you set this network up

hi all,
i recently turned in a project and wanted to see how you MGs would set this up. im not asking for you do to my project, i mean since i turned it in and am awaiting grading. seeing if i screwed up or not lol. teacher didnt give a building size or much other info. any questions or comments ask away

System Design Requirements

basement
IT Department:
All needed switches and routers
Wireless access for entire building
Cabled
Servers:
File storage
Remote Access
Communications
Management/Security
Web Servers - 6
Departments:

First Floor
Engineering – 10
Sales – 10
Tech Support - 10

Second Floor
Management - 10
Human Resources – 5
Marketing – 5

 

The first issue I have there, is having the IT department in the basement. Just consider a flood in that area.

 

i thought about that but i dont make the rules lol i just follow them

 

Server on the first floor for those users, server on the second floor for those users. Run everything through a 1gig network, with Fiber backbone between floors. Also find out who needs Internet connection, block those that don't through the Firewall. Also, are there VoIP phones involved. Min. you are looking at initial budget around max $250,000us for a good network setup including all hardware.

 

I wouldn't assign a server by floor. Server assignments should be by department.

Thus Engineering and Tech Support would be on the same server, and all the fluffy departments, Sales/Management/Human Resources/Marketing would be on a separate server. There should be a mechanism to allow for transfer of files, etc between the two server groups.

Communications may be assigned a separate server as would VPN. So with the web servers you might need 10 or 11 servers total, depending upon how you allow management/security group to operate.

Depending upon the storage needs, what kind of company and what kind of data is it storing, you should estimate 5 times the storage capacity to enable you to make backups and use hot-swappable drives. With current prices i see no reason not to use 1 TB drives throughout with an estimate of 250GB per person.

Without a budget to establish the high limit of your hardware expediture why not go for best case. With the number of users you have one or two switches on each floor should work. Your wireless solution should have overlapping patterns so that there aren't any dead spots, unless your intention is to only provide wireless in meeting rooms. Meeting rooms should also have at least one free cabled drop for high intensity data transmission. It is very useful.