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Department of Computer Science
DCS
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
Selecting Technologies &
Devices for Campus Networks
Rab Nawaz JadoonAssistant Professor
COMSATS IIT, Abbottabad
Pakistan
Telecommunication Network Design (TND)
Part III - Physical Network Design
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Physical network design
Physical network design involves the selection of LAN and WAN technologies for campus and enterprise network designs.
During this phase of the top-down network design process, choices are made regarding,
Cabling, physical and data link layer protocols, and internetworking devices (such as switches, routers, and wireless access points).
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Campus Network
A campus network is a set of LAN segments and building networks in an area that is generally less than a mile in diameter.
“Physical Network Design,” is to give you information about the scalability, performance, affordability, and manageability characteristics of typical options, to help you make the right selections for your particular customer.
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LAN Cabling
Cabling infrastructure often must last for many years.
It is important to design and implement the cabling infrastructure carefully, keeping in mind availability and scalability goals, and the expected lifetime of the design.
In many cases, your network design must adapt to existing cabling.
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Cabling topologies
Two types of cabling schemes are possible:
A centralized cabling scheme terminates most or all of the cable runs in one area of the design environment.
A star topology is an example of a centralized system.
A distributed cabling scheme terminates cable runs throughout the design environment.
Ring, bus, and mesh topologies are examples of distributed systems.
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Building-Cabling Topologies
Within a building, either a centralized or distributed architecture can be used, depending on the size of the building.
For small buildings, a centralized scheme with all cables terminating in a communications room on one floor is possible.
A centralized scheme offers good manageability but does not scale.
For larger buildings, a distributed topology is more appropriate.
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Building-Cabling Topologies
Many LAN technologies make an assumption that workstations are no more than 100 meters from a telecommunications closet where hubs or switches reside. For this reason, in a tall building with large floors, a distributed
topology is more appropriate
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Campus Cabling Topologies
The cabling that connects buildings is exposed to more physical hazards than the cabling within buildings.
A construction worker might dig a trench between buildings and unintentionally cut cables.
Flooding, ice storms, earthquakes, and other natural disasters can also cause problems, as can manmade disasters such as terrorist attacks.
In addition, cables might cross properties outside the control of the organization, making it hard to troubleshoot and fix problems.
For these reasons, cables and cabling topologies should be selected carefully.
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Campus Cabling Topologies
A distributed scheme offers better availability than a centralized scheme.
The centralized topology in Figure (next slide) would experience a loss of all interbuilding communication if the cable bundle between Buildings A and B broken/cutted.
With the distributed topology, interbuilding communication could resume if a cable cut between Buildings A and B occurred.
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Campus Cabling Topologies
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Types of Cables
Campus network implementations use three major types of cables.
Shielded copper, including shielded twisted-pair (STP), coaxial (coax), and twinaxial (twinax) cables.
Unshielded copper (typically UTP) cables
Fiber-optic cables
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Categories of UTP
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LAN Technologies
Ethernet Basics Since its invention in the 1970s by Xerox Corporation,
Ethernet has gained widespread popularity and adapted to new demands for capacity, reliability, and low prices.
An Ethernet LAN that is accurately provisioned to meet bandwidth requirements and outfitted with high-quality components, including NICs, cables, and internetworking devices, can meet even the most stringent demands for availability.
Many troubleshooting tools, including cable testers, protocol analyzers, and network management applications, are available for isolating the occasional problems caused by cable breaks, electromagnetic interference, failed ports, or misbehaving NICs.
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Ethernet standards w.r.t media
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Selecting internetworking devices for campus networks
In most cases, the choice will be between a switch and a router.
Hubs and bridges are generally no longer used, although hubs are sometimes placed in a network to facilitate tapping into a network for protocol analysis, and bridges are still sometimes used in wireless networks.
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Comparison of internetworking devices
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Comparison of internetworking devices
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After you have designed a network topology and made some decisions aboutthe placement and scope of shared, switched, and routed network segments,you should then recommend actual switches, bridges, and routers fromvarious vendors.
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Criteria of selecting internetworking devices for campus
Criteria for selecting internetworking devices in general include the following:
Number of ports
Processing speed
Amount of memory
Amount of latency introduced when the device relays data
Throughput in packets per second
Ingress/egress queuing and buffering techniques
LAN and WAN technologies supported
Autosensing of speed (for example, 10 or 100 Mbps)
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Criteria of selecting internetworking devices for campus
Auto detection of half- versus full-duplex operation
Media (cabling) supported
Ease of configuration
Cost
Mean time between failure (MTBF) and mean time to repair (MTTR)
Support for packet filters and other security measures
Support for hot-swappable components
Support for in-service software upgrades
Support for redundant power supplies
Support for optimization features
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Criteria of selecting internetworking devices for campus
Support for QoS features
Availability and quality of technical support
Availability and quality of documentation
Reputation and viability of the vendor
Availability of independent test results that confirm the performance of the device
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For switches and bridges
For switches and bridges (including wireless bridges), the following criteria can be added to the first bulleted list in this section:
Bridging technologies supported (transparent bridging, Spanning Tree Algorithm, remote bridging, and so on)
Advanced spanning-tree features supported (rapid reconfiguration of spanning trees and multiple spanning trees [802.1s])
The number of MAC addresses that the switch or bridge can learn
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For switches and bridges
Support for stacking or virtual switching where multiple switches can be managed as one switch
Support for port security (802.1X)
Support for cut-through switching
Support for adaptive cut-through switching
VLAN technologies supported, such as the VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) and IEEE 802.1Q (VLAN on ethernet network)
Support for multicast applications (for example, the ability to participate in the Internet Group Management Protocol [IGMP] to control the spread of multicast packets)
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For switches and bridges
Amount of memory available for switching tables, routing tables (if the switch has a routing module), and memory used by protocol routines
Availability of a routing module
802.3af Power over Ethernet (PoE) or 802.3at PoE+
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For routers
For routers selection
Network layer protocols supported
Routing protocols supported
Support for multicast applications
Support for advanced queuing, switching, and other optimization features
Support for compression (and compression performance if it is supported)
Support for encryption (and encryption performance if it is supported)
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For wireless access points and bridges
For wireless access points and bridges, the following criteria can be added to the first bulleted list in this section:
Wireless speeds supported (11 Mbps, 5.5 Mbps, 54 Mbps, and 600 Mbps)
Wireless standards supported (802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11n)
Speed of uplink Ethernet port
Support for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Network Address Translation (NAT), and IP routing
Support for VLANs
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For wireless access points and bridges
Support for inline power over Ethernet if the access point is unlikely to be mounted near power outlets
Antenna range and support for higher-end antenna attachments
Transmit power and receive sensitivity
Ability to tune the transmit power
Availability of a rugged model for outside use
Support for authenticating client devices by MAC address
An option for disabling Service Set Identifier (SSID) broadcasts
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For wireless access points and bridges
Support for 128-bit or better encryption
Support for Publicly Secure Packet Forwarding (PSPF)
Support for security standards such as WPA or 802.11i
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