Hi guys,
I'm creating a mock up of a network, however I don't have experience of designing networks above 8-20 users such as the practice PT tests and scenarios. I've not done a lot of CCNA level stuff in the past twelve months due to other commitments, but I've decided to do a networking project for university but I'm really struggling with designing the topology and would appreciate some help.
The network is going to be 109 users large, split into around 12 different departments. For the sake of tidyness, I'll be putting two departments per 24-port switch and allowing 11 ports per department, however I'll be using VLAN's and VTP so any expansion of a department past the 11 assigned ports can be connected to any switch and still function.
This is the bit I am stuck on, however. I'm familiar with using routers for inter-VLAN routing, or just using ROAS, however I've never designed a basic network of this size in which I am trying to create a lot of redundancy into in the distribution and core layers, so I'm stuck at the best route to investigate, and would appreciate some help. This is the topology thus far:
Please note, 1 PC represents a workgroup of around 6-22
Like I said, I've got very limited experience with actually designing and creating topologies, and a just looking for maybe some ideas of more effective ways of doing this, or criticisms of what I've done and why it's bad? Any constructive replies will be highly appreciated.
