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Hello All,
I'm doing a study for a research paper and i was wondering if some of you would be available to help. All i need is the following information answered about your workplace LAN. Doesn't have to be detailed. Thank you..

The physical extent of the LAN (number of buildings)

The number of users.

The number of nodes and workstation types (i.e., Pentium, etc.).

The number of servers.

The applications (i.e., e-mail, Windows, MS Office, etc.).

The architecture (i.e., client/server, peer-to-peer, mainframe, segmented, etc.).

The topology (i.e., bus, ring, star, etc.).

The media (i.e., UTP, STP, Coaxial cable, Fiber, etc.).

The connections (i.e., Hubs, repeaters, bridges, gateways, etc.).

The NOS (i.e., Novell, Windows NT, UNIX, etc.).

The LAN Management (i.e., administrator, help desk, etc.).

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Here is some basic info/estimates:
15 sites
about 4000 users (students and staff)
about 2000 computers, desktops from 400mhz celerons to 3+Ghz P4s, laptops from 800mhz PIII to 2.16ghz Pentium M.
40 servers
Office 2000, 2003 with exchange 2000 advanced, symantec av corp
Client/Server
Star topology
Cat5e, Cat6, Fiber, wireless
HP Procurve switches, Cisco Catalyst switchs, Cisco Routers/firewall, Buffalo wireless bridges, Cisco Aironet accesspoints
Windows XP/2000 clients, Server 2000/2003 servers
No lan management software atm though considering Lightspeed systems software

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The physical extent of the LAN (number of buildings)
:::10 Buildings

The number of users.
:::around 6k

The number of nodes and workstation types (i.e., Pentium, etc.).
:::10k Dell/WinTel’s

The number of servers.
::Unknown, A $h!t ton

The applications (i.e., e-mail, Windows, MS Office, etc.).
::Everything from Adobe, to office, to Tivoli, to AS/400

The architecture (i.e., client/server, peer-to-peer, mainframe, segmented, etc.).
::Client/Server, Mainframe

The topology (i.e., bus, ring, star, etc.).
::Star and Token ring

The media (i.e., UTP, STP, Coaxial cable, Fiber, etc.).
::Fiber Cat5e, wireless

The connections (i.e., Hubs, repeaters, bridges, gateways, etc.).
::Routers, firewall, switches, hubs, wireless bridges

The NOS (i.e., Novell, Windows NT, UNIX, etc.).
::not sure, prolly AS/400

The LAN Management (i.e., administrator, help desk, etc.).
::Everything from departmental Help desk to overseas help desk.

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