Planning and Implementing a Basic SOHO Network Using Network Segmentation
It’s likely that at some point you’ll have to break up one large network into a bunch of smaller ones because user response will have dwindled to a slow crawl as the network grew and grew. With all that growth, your LAN’s traffic congestion will have reached epic proportions.
Determining Requirements
When implementing a SOHO network, the first thing to be done is to identify the requirements of the network and the constraints around which you must operate. This should drive your design and device choices. An example set of requirements and constraints might be as follows:
- A small number of computers are needed.
- There is a high need for Internet access.
- Resources need to be shared.
- Wired hosts and wireless hosts will need to communicate with each other.
- Security is very important.
With these constraints in mind, you might find that you’ll need more than just a switch and some Cat 5e...
