Help with network upgrades

[nam9684]

I am doing a project for class which is to analyze a company's network and discuss vulnerabilities and suggest upgrades. The company has about 120 employees, with the current network equipments are listed below, I know its not very much information but this is all that I could get so far, as my group partner is the one giving me all the info. If someone can get me started and make some suggestions on how this can be improved upon, I would very much appreciate it. Thanks in advance for the help.


Catalyst 2950, Catalyst 4500, Cisco 7200, and a Dell Server (not sure of the exact model).

 

[dphantom]

Afraid you're going to need a lot more info than that. What services are you running on the network? VoIP, wireless, VPN, email, hosted web site etc...

What is the server doing - SBS or are theire other servers as well. What about a firewall? Software or hardware based? And what software or hardware.

And probably most important, what exactly are you trying to accomplish?

 

[kevnich2]

I'm not trying to make you feel bad here but if this is for YOUR class project for a class, have you done any of the work yet? It seems like your saying you have this for a class project and basically don't understand anything about what was actually asked and are asking for us to do your project for you? From your post, you seem to not understand computer networks at all and yet you were assigned to analyze a company's network and discuss vulnerabilities???

 

[robmurphy]

Hey this sounds great.

I can go to a customer's site, get a few sketcy details of their kit, not even ask what they what they are looking to achieve with the upgrade, and then get my own dedicated design team to do all the work for me. I do not even need to do any reasearch my self first. Support is good, any problems and I just post them here.

Rob Murphy.

 

[spidey07]

Suggestion:

1) Get requirements first - what are you trying to accomplish
2) 2950, 4500, 7200 are all very current platforms. No upgrades needed unless specific features/redundancy are required.
3) 7200 router for a 120 person office? Your prof is out of touch with reality.