Just started at a new company and to call the networking situation a nightmare would be putting it easy. Small Company less than 15 employees with 10 of those utilizing VOIP aastra phones.
Office building is divided into 3 area's. When I walked in they were using a Netgear FSV318v1(with a 10mb/wan port) that spanned out into a cluster fuck of wires and cascading netgear unmanaged FS116 switches. The office is littered with cables running all over the place.
As this is a small internet sales company they do not have a large IT budget. I was able to get a great deal on a Juniper SSG-5 which has greatly improved quality of life. I have a couple of questions on how best to move forward.
1. Is it possible to just run a single cat6 line to each office from the SSG-5 and than toss HP V1905-24 in each area for the local computers/voip phones.
2. Would it pay to put a gigE switch between the SSG-5 and the network so that lines running to and from said switch would be GigE.
All client machines have GigE network interface cards.
Office building is divided into 3 area's. When I walked in they were using a Netgear FSV318v1(with a 10mb/wan port) that spanned out into a cluster fuck of wires and cascading netgear unmanaged FS116 switches. The office is littered with cables running all over the place.
As this is a small internet sales company they do not have a large IT budget. I was able to get a great deal on a Juniper SSG-5 which has greatly improved quality of life. I have a couple of questions on how best to move forward.
1. Is it possible to just run a single cat6 line to each office from the SSG-5 and than toss HP V1905-24 in each area for the local computers/voip phones.
2. Would it pay to put a gigE switch between the SSG-5 and the network so that lines running to and from said switch would be GigE.
Code:
ISP ->Juniper SSG-5----GigE Switch------HP V1905-24---clients
|----- HP V1905-24---clients
|----- HP V1905-24---clients
All client machines have GigE network interface cards.