Question

Discuss how you would network a university with two campuses, taking into account the various sections of that campus (computer labs, health clinic, offices, security post, etc), discussing the choice of technologies, devices, topology/topologies, network types, protocols and anything else you would use and justifying your choices

Answer 1

· Every University ought to keep up secure, lawful and proper utilization of Information technology innovation arrangements with in the campus. It builds up University-wide techniques and duties regarding ensuring protecting the CIA - (Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability of the information assets. Data resources tended to by the arrangement incorporate information, data frameworks, PCs, organize gadgets, protected innovation, just as archives.

· A large campus with gatherings of structures can also use WAN innovation to interface the buildings.

· Campus arranges for the most part use LAN advances, for example, Ethernet, Token Ring, Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM).

· Communication media:

o Guided Media – Fiber Optic Cable

o Wireless Medium.

· Devices:

o Switches for connectivity ( central switch, which is connected with other department switches

o Routers for internetwork connectivity

o Firewalls used for Security

· Topologies Used:

o Star Topology

o Tree Topology

· Network Types:

o Local Area Network (LAN)

o Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)

o Wide Area Networks (WAN)

o Virtual Private Network (VPN)

o Internetwork