The basic design goals asked for at least 1mbit to every computer, 75 administrative pcs and 175 curriculum pcs per school, 4 T1s between each service center, and a T1 connection to the internet. We met or exceeded all of these goals. Here are our expectations:
- There will be a total of 250 PCs per school; 75 administrative and 175 curriculum.
- With a heavily switched environment, bandwidth is high. Backbones will easily have up to 1gbit of bandwidth. Servers will have 100mbit+ of bandwidth. Lab pcs will be provided with a minimum of 8mbit, and all other campus pcs will have a minimum of 10mbit bandwidth available at any time.
- Administrators and Students are seperated on the main workgroup switch with the use of VLANs. There will be seperate servers for administrative and curriculum use. The Email, DNS, and Web servers will be fed off of student ports, providing connectivity to both groups.
- LAN backbones will utilize singlemode fiber for gbit transfer rates.
- All servers will be wired with gigabit ethernet.
- Buildings themselves will be wired with Cat5e UTP ethernet.
- All data centers will be interconnected with 4 T1 lines to each.
- The district will have a single T1 line for internet usage.
Our proposal provides for the best possible scalability. What we give up in latency we make up for in speed and reliability.
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