GEN3RIC
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Background information:
My department has a room with 12 cubes separated into 2 sections - 6 each. We have two domains we connect to, the corpdmz01 or the adminsys network. The corpdmz01 domain is very private, has no internet or email access. It communicates with another server on a different domain within our Intranet to get extremely sensitive data in and out.
My boss wants to install another box at each cubicle that runs on the adminsys network - which gives you the internet, email, and other functions but cannot communicate with the corpdmz01 domain computers directly.
That seems like a good solution, because our corpdmz01 boxes run Win2k due to the software we are using...and our adminsys boxes run XP SP2 because of the software it needs to run.
The question:
Each cubicle has an ethernet port (corpdmz01) but would need an adminsys port added to each and it would total $12,000 to wire it. Would it be acceptable to use a switch (lets say 2-8ports, 1 for each section) to split 1 adminsys cable into one for each box in that section?
If so, what level of switch would be ideal? I am thinking at least an 8 port gigabit switch like this one from Netgear. Its so cheap though...
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=234660&CatId=0
Thanks for your help
My department has a room with 12 cubes separated into 2 sections - 6 each. We have two domains we connect to, the corpdmz01 or the adminsys network. The corpdmz01 domain is very private, has no internet or email access. It communicates with another server on a different domain within our Intranet to get extremely sensitive data in and out.
My boss wants to install another box at each cubicle that runs on the adminsys network - which gives you the internet, email, and other functions but cannot communicate with the corpdmz01 domain computers directly.
That seems like a good solution, because our corpdmz01 boxes run Win2k due to the software we are using...and our adminsys boxes run XP SP2 because of the software it needs to run.
The question:
Each cubicle has an ethernet port (corpdmz01) but would need an adminsys port added to each and it would total $12,000 to wire it. Would it be acceptable to use a switch (lets say 2-8ports, 1 for each section) to split 1 adminsys cable into one for each box in that section?
If so, what level of switch would be ideal? I am thinking at least an 8 port gigabit switch like this one from Netgear. Its so cheap though...
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=234660&CatId=0
Thanks for your help