Five doctors have formed a partnership and are consulting my team and I for creating a network between the five offices. We will be using existing T1 lines to connect the offices but are not sure on the network and subnet design. Four of the offices are each about 15 miles from the central office, which has an existing LAN in place. Also, the east and west offices have existing LANs.
All five offices have outdated hardware and software, so we will be replacing all of the computers with new systems running Windows XP.
Each office will require ten computers, a printer/scanner/copier, and a fax machine.
We will be using SUSE Linux to run the server. It will also be using Samba in order to work with the XP clients.
We aren’t sure which would be easier: if all of the offices should be on one subnet or if each office should have it’s own subnet.
We also plan on having Voice Over IP for each office.
If it’s all one subnet, then VoIP will be no problem.
But, if we go with multiple subnets, should we get seperate VoIP services for each subnet? or have one VoIP provider on the central server?
I should also mention that the doctors have not given us the job yet. They are shopping around for the best deal for them.
any help with this would be much appreciated.
Doretta
