Temasek Polytechnic campus network design and implementation: a case study

Author

Liu, J.Y. ; Chiam, T.T. ; Kwong, K.K.

Author_Institution

Temasek Polytech., Singapore

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

209

Lastpage

214

Abstract

The use of a wide area network (WAN) and the Internet as a means of communication between five temporary satellite campuses in 1990 makes Temasek Polytechnic one of the earlier adopters of WAN technology and the Internet. For its permanent campus, Temasek Polytechnic decided to use ATM as the campus network backbone. Since then, Temasek Polytechnic has expanded in both WAN connectivity and local area network (LAN) capacity. The network was designed, and has been constantly upgraded accordingly, to cater for capacity, redundancy and future migration. This paper presents a case study of the Polytechnic´s campus network design and implementation in both LAN and WAN connectivity. Furthermore, the server farm implementation is discussed to address network security concerns

Keywords

Internet; asynchronous transfer mode; client-server systems; computer facilities; educational administrative data processing; local area networks; network servers; wide area networks; ATM; Internet; Temasek Polytechnic campus network; WAN technology; campus network backbone; capacity; edge device; firewall; future migration; local area network; network design; network security; redundancy; satellite campuses; server farm implementation; wide area network; Asynchronous transfer mode; Computer aided software engineering; Ethernet networks; FDDI; IP networks; Local area networks; Network servers; Satellites; Spine; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Internet Workshop, 1999. IWS 99

Conference_Location

Osaka

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5925-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWS.1999.811015

Filename

811015