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Campus Area Network

A campus area network (CAN) interconnects multiple local area networks within a university or corporate campus. It links buildings such as departments, libraries, and dorms. A CAN is larger than a LAN but smaller than a metropolitan or wide area network. Key components of a CAN include Ethernet switches, routers, optical fibers, and an ATM backbone. The CAN provides connectivity between buildings and centralized resources like file servers.

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Campus Area Network

A campus area network (CAN) interconnects multiple local area networks within a university or corporate campus. It links buildings such as departments, libraries, and dorms. A CAN is larger than a LAN but smaller than a metropolitan or wide area network. Key components of a CAN include Ethernet switches, routers, optical fibers, and an ATM backbone. The CAN provides connectivity between buildings and centralized resources like file servers.

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CAMPUS AREA NETWORK

DEFINATION :

A campus area network (CAN) is a computer network interconnecting a few local area networks
(LANs) within a university campus or corporate campus. Campus area network may link a
variety of campus buildings including departments, the university library and student halls of
residence. A campus area network is larger than a local area network but smaller than a
metropolitan area network (MAN) or wide area network (WAN). CAN can also stand for
corporate area network.

NEED :

CAN (Campus Area Network) area is no doubt larger than a local area network but it is still
smaller then a wide area network. These networks are designed for the particular place that hits
the highest point level. For example, multiple labs, multiple offices in the buildings etc. most of
the time, this term is referred as the university campus but when it is used at organizational level,
we call it corporate campus network.

As we have discussed above it is smaller than a wide area network and multiple Local Area
Network (LAN) combines in one organization or regions to make a Campus Area Network
(CAN). Therefore, whenever some one tells you about the networks within the specific area, you
can easily guess that it is campus network.

REQUIREMENTS :

NETWORKING EQUIPMENTS :
routers, Ethernet switches, and ATM switches

TRANSMISSION MEDIA :

Optical fibers,
DESIGN :
SPECIFICATIONS :

network designers generally deploy a campus design optimized for the fastest functional
architecture that runs on the existing physical wire. They might also upgrade wiring to meet the
requirements of emerging applications. For example, higher-speed technologies-such as Fast
Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and ATM as a backbone architecture-and Layer 2 switching provide
dedicated bandwidth to the desktop.The Enterprise Composite Network Model is a blueprint that
network designers can use to simplify the complexity of a large internetwork. The blueprint lets
you apply a modular, hierarchical approach to network design. With the Enterprise Composite
Network Model, you can analyze the functional, logical, and physical components of a network,
and thus simplify the process of designing an overall enterprise network.

DEVICES :

NETWORKING EQUIPMENTS :

Routers : Routers forward data packets across computer networks. A Router checks the data packet for
its destination address and protocol format details

Ethernet switches : An Ethernet switch is a network switch that transmits data at Ethernet standard rates

 
 
, and ATM switches

TRANSMISSION MEDIA :

Optical fibers,

WORKING :

Most campus networks feature a high-performance, switched backbone, called the campus
backbone, that connects buildings and different parts of the campus. A high-capacity, centralized
server farm connects to the backbone and provides internal server resources to users, for
example, application, file, print, e-mail, and Domain Name System (DNS) services. Network
management is an important component in a campus network design. A campus backbone must
provide access to management devices that support monitoring, logging, troubleshooting,
security, and other common management functions.

According to the Enterprise Composite Network Model, a campus consists of the campus
infrastructure module, a server farm, a network management module, and an edge distribution
module that provides connectivity between the campus and the rest of the internetwork. It shows
these modules and illustrates that the campus infrastructure module has three submodules:

Building access submodule. Located within a campus building, this submodule contains end-user
workstations and IP phones connected to switches or wireless access points. Higher-end switches
provide uplinks to the building distribution module. Services offered by this module include
network access, broadcast control, protocol filtering, and the marking of packets for QoS
features.

Building distribution submodule. The job of this submodule is to aggregate wiring closets within
a building and provide connectivity to the campus backbone via routers (or switches with routing
modules). This submodule provides routing, QoS, and access control methods for meeting
security and performance requirements. Redundancy and load sharing are recommended for this
submodule. For example, each building distribution submodule should have two equal-cost paths
to the campus backbone.

Campus backbone. The campus backbone is the core layer of the campus infrastructure. The
backbone interconnects the building access and distribution submodules with the server farm,
network management, and edge distribution modules. The campus backbone provides redundant
and fast-converging connectivity. It routes and switches traffic as quickly as possible from one
module to another. This module usually uses high-speed routers (or switches with routing
capability) and provides QoS and security features.

WORKING :

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