Your team has been asked to design a LAN for a very successful CPA firm with five departments in one building and a total of 560 employees. Currently, the firm has no networked computers, and it is open to any suggestions your team can offer. The firm does have a few requirements:
It wants to make sure that it can easily expand its LAN in the future without exorbitant costs and moving a lot of equipment.
Every department must have very fast access to the LAN.
The LAN must remain up at all times.
Must use Windows 7 operating system.
As a team, determine what kind of LAN your team will design for this company.
For this proposal use a star network which should consist of a 10 star 3 tier structure database servers for load balancing. There are 56 networked workstations and these may be broke down further.
Write one page regarding network hardware and which devices would be less expensive and how it would affect the network.