Putting It All Together in a Design

To illustrate the concepts discussed in this chapter, three designs are presented. These design scenarios cover a range of organizations from small to medium to large. The profile of the three enterprises is as follows:

Small enterprise—A total of 30 servers in 3 locations, a main office with a shared T1 to the branch offices, and 25% bandwidth availability.

Medium enterprise—A total of 500 servers in 10 locations, a main office with a shared 11Mbps fractional T3 to the branch offices, and 25% bandwidth availability.

Large enterprise—A total of 2,000 servers in 50 locations, a main office with a shared 45Mbps T3 to the branch offices, and 25% bandwidth availability.

Based on these sizes, designs were ...

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