my networking assignment- connecting two offices?

[lockmac]

Hi. I am a uni student and for my network administration project, we have to create a network between Sydney and Melbourne (hypothetically). Just wandering, my network is basically the same company with an office in Sydney and one in Melbourne. How would these two offices connect to exchange data? My melbourne based office has all the data servers so the Sydney office needs to connect to it constantly and securely.

Its not through the internet i dont think. You would rent lines from the phone company wouldnt you?

Any help appreciated

 

[Jamsan]

Depending on your requirements, you could do a VPN tunnel over the interent from A to B. If you need high availability and guaranteed bandwidth, a point to point T1 would be better depending on distance. With that, you'd need a router at each site, configure the serial ports at each end with an IP, setup your enscapsulation mode, setup either a static or dynamic routing protocol between both networks, and you should be good to go.

 

[spidey07]

Without doing your homework for you there are about dozen ways to do this. Here are your basic choices.

1) Use a public network - The Internet and VPN technology on each end.
2) Use a private network - purchase and contractually agree to an end to end service (about two dozen ways to do this).
3) Build your own optical network using fiber you either purchased and/or buried yourself (about 3 dozen ways to do this).
4) Any combination of the above.

The pros and cons of each approach are what your professor wants you to understand.