ou have been called as a consultant for a new network design for Zenith company. The requirements of this design are summarized as follows:

The building has 5 floors.

There are 300 user workstations and 10 servers.

Users must be grouped according to the projects theyre working on, but users for each project are located on all five floors.

There must be fault tolerance for communication between the floors.

The company leased a building across the street. The owner is concerned about how to connect to the building across the street. He thinks the cost of contracting with a communication provider is too expensive for such a short distance.

a) What devices, types of mediums and topologies are you going to use for this network and why? [4 marks]

b) How are you going to separate the groups in your network with the most secure way?[2 marks]

c) What solution can you suggest for connecting the building across the street with the existing the building?