You are a network administrator, and just got hired.?

Question

Your highest priority, and the project that you were specifically hired for, is to upgrade the existing network. Your employer currently has only one building, half office space and half manufacturing/warehouse. The existing network has only ThickNet and ThinNet connecting PCs and servers and other devices. What overall plan would you create to upgrade the network for this bottlenecked company? How will your plan support future growth and upgrades?

Answer 1

Sounds like an A+ or Net+ question to me, but it's not mine to judge how you get an answer. That on your morals and ethics.

1) Purchase 10/100BaseT switches to support manufacturing and the main office building.
2) Hire cabling contractor (or do it yourself) to install new Cat6 cable to all locations. If done right, these cables should go from the users desktops to the Telecommunications Rooms (T/Cs) or server room, depending on cable length.
3) Configure switches when they arrive and place them near the cable terminations.
4) Connect new switches together following 5-4-3 rule and/or Cisco Campus design.
5) Migrate PCs, a section at a time to the new network
6) Rip out old Thicknet and thinnet when computers have all been migrated to the new network.

WG