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Campus Area Network

Server Configuration
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Chapter 2 Objectives:
1. Understand Campus Area Network.
(CAN)
Component of CAN topology
 Switched Backbone
 Redundancy
 Mirrored/virtualization servers
 Centralized server.

Server Farm Structure

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2.1 Campus Area Network
 A campus network is a building or group of building all
connected into one enterprise network consisting of many LANs.
 This network usually in the same geographic area. It can be the
college campus, enterprise campus, office buildings, military
base, industrial complex.
 A campus area network (CAN) is a network of multiple
interconnected local area networks (LAN) in a limited
geographical area. A CAN is smaller than a wide area network
(WAN) or metropolitan area network (MAN).
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2.1 Campus Area Network

 As campus networks have grown and technologies have matured,

network engineers and architects have many more options to
consider than the hubs, Ethernet switches, and routers traditionally
put in place.
 A company typically owns the entire campus network, as well as the
physical wiring.
 Campus networks commonly consist of Ethernet, 802.11 wireless
LANs, higher-speed Fast Ethernet, Fast EtherChannel, and Gigabit
Ethernet LANs.
 Some campus networks also consist of legacy Token Ring and FDDI.
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Components of Campus Area Network (CAN) topology:

A. Switched Backbone
£ Backbone is the core layer of the campus infrastructure, called the
campus backbone, it that connects buildings and different parts of the
campus and provide fast switching in a network.
£ Backbone has more cables, but fewer devices (easily managed network ).
£ Used Layer 3 switch to replaces the many routers of other designs.
£ A campus backbone must provide access to management devices that
support monitoring, logging, troubleshooting, security, and other
common management functions - simultaneous access of switched
operations.
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Switched backbone
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Components of Campus Area Network (CAN) topology:

B. Redundancy

£ Implementing redundant links to ensures that network devices can

find alternate paths to send data in the event of a failure.
£ When Layer 3 devices are placed at the Core Layer, these redundant
links can be used for load balancing in addition to providing backup.
£ Provide redundancy by using full mesh or partial mesh topology.
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Redundancy
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Components of Campus Area Network (CAN) topology:

C. Mirrored / Virtualization Servers

£ Method of set-up 2 similar configuration servers in 2 different racks out
of which one server is the master server and other is the slave server. -
If the master server fails, the slave server can immediately take its place
without any downtime.
£ Server virtualization is the masking of server resources, including the
number and identity of individual physical servers, processors, and
operating systems, from server users.
£ The server administrator uses a software application to divide one
physical server into multiple isolated virtual environments (called
private servers or guests)
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Components of Campus Area Network (CAN) topology:

C. Mirrored / Virtualization Servers

--->There are three popular approaches to server virtualization:

@}- The virtual machine model
@}- The para virtual machine model
@}- virtualization at the operating system (OS) layer.
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Mirror Server
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Components of Campus Area Network (CAN) topology:

D. Centralized Servers
£ Type of network where all users connect to a central server, which
is the acting agent for all communications. - use a centralized
network.
£ It consists of high speed computers connects to the backbone and
provides internal server resources to users, for example, application,
file, print, e-mail, and Domain Name System (DNS) services.
£ This server would store both the communications and the user
account information.
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Centralized Server
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Server Farm Structure

 A group of enterprise servers along with their access and distribution layer
switches.

 It consist of thousand of computers which require a larger amount of power to

run and to keep cool.

 A server farm can be made up of servers running applications that are

accessed by users from all across the enterprise.

 The entire server farm can be identified as its own switch block and given a
layer of access switches uplinked to dual distribution switches (multilayer).

 Have backup servers, which can take over the function of primary servers in
the event of a primary server failure.
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Server Farm Structure

Example of server farm:

---> File server: a computer and storage device dedicated to storing

files. Any user on the network can store files on the server.

---> Print server: a computer that manages one or more printers, and
a network server is a computer that manages network traffic.

---> Database server: A computer system that processes database

queries.
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Server Farm
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Server Farm
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Server Farm
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