Summary
This chapter explored the data networking infrastructure and addressed design considerations relating to its key elements. Those elements include telecommunications closets and their most common components (cabling, switches, and routers), network servers and storage solutions, power protection, and the user desktop environment (including workstations and other network peripherals). Cabling, switching, and routing encompass the bottom three layers of the OSI model and are accompanied by numerous standards and choices in equipment and protocols, offering you the opportunity to accommodate a wide range of SMB infrastructure requirements.
Network servers and storage solutions were discussed in the context of their interface to the network, ...
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