Need Help With Cisco Network academy Threaded case study

[timtheenchanter]

has anyone done the acacia school? I am in a group where everything is being left up to me to complete and would appreciate any help that can be offered from those who have already gone through this.

many thanks

 

[Akash]

dude do it your self its gonna be work but its worth it i had to do ours by my self and it went great... and its worth the expirence..

 

[Deicide]

I'm in the academy, but still in the first semester. Its mostly self paced, so i don't see what the big deal with doing it yourself would be. Setting up the test network, however, would probably be too much work for one person. Just delegate the easier stuff to your teammates and handle the complicated stuff by yourself.

 

[xyyz]

i'm in the second semester... what is it you need? i'll try to help.

 

[timtheenchanter]

My plan is to run 3 12 port hubs in each classroom for the students and then run each of the hubs as well as the teacher into a switch. Setup VLANS between the switches to keep the students and the faculty on different networks and to run fiber between the various IDF's (switches). I plan on using one idf to serve 8 classrooms. I just wanted to know if this sounds like a feasible plan? Also, they want a to scale drawing of the MDF and IDF which is giving me some difficulty anyone have any tips out there on creating these drawings?
thanks

 

[xyyz]

VLANS? sounds like 3rd semester stuff... and it seems you are doing the 4th semester project or something...

that or my network academy really sucks. nonetheless if you really need the help i'll ask my instructor if it's feasable

 

[CTR]

Are they seriously teaching you to design a network with hubs?

 

[spidey07]

CTR,
hahahhhhahah

Thou shalt not use shared media.

 

[LadyDi]

I don't know what this academy is. What's the website. I'm in Charlottesville, VA. I am getting ready to take a Cisco course and am interested in what other options there are.

Thank you,
Diana

 

[timtheenchanter]

The layout is up to the student, the plan to use 3 hubs through a switch is to segment the network and free up bandwidth. This is not a large corporation we are talking about it is a school, I think putting switches in every classroom would be overkill. Please keep in mind that this is all Cisco equipment so we are not talking about cheap switches being an option in this case. The Cisco academy that I am going to takes 1 year to complete and is offerred at the ROP (regional occupation program in CA. The great thing is it only costs $80 for the whole year. I figure I can't beat the price and I have actually learned quite a bit for someone with no prior experience. I am in the 3rd semester and getting ready to go into the fourth semester. The academies are all supposed to follow the same format dictated from Cisco.

 

[CTR]

Well you need to spec Catalyst2924XL switches as a bare minimum. Forget the hubs. Cisco FastHubs are way overpriced anyway. CatalystXL switches use CiscoIOS, support VLAN's, have an integrated web config interface, and support SNMP. A 24-port SNMP manageable Cisco FastHub costs almost the same. And don't even think about using those retarded 1500-series microhubs.

You have to think about the next 2-3 years of the add/moves/changes/maintenance/training cycle as well as the price of the equipment when you decide how much something is going to "cost."

 

[spidey07]

Well, said CTR.

He might not need the Enterprise software if trunking is not needed. I believe the 2924 and 2912 switches are less than 100 dollars a port. Pretty cheap.

my $.02

spidey

 

[Akash]

i dont know but i think our network was pimp but exessive.. we had 3524's all around w/ gigiabit links to the 3508 gigabit fiber switch and the cisco VR somthign 720 702 some number w/ the seven as our router doing the routing for the distric and also routing the ds3 we also vlaned our admin network away from our student network on a differnt subnet.. firewalled off.. for protection i think thats about it OHH just rembered ENTERPRIZE is A MUST for v'lans it also increases managemt.. thats why they hired you..if it was easy enough they would have did it thereselves..also rember the 200% groth that you ahve to take into account make sure u have enough room on your racks and the cisco 3508 ours was filled so we added another 3508 and dasychained them...