Any help is appreciated.
I'm in an office building on the first floor. We have our "internet only" network running on the external side of a Cisco catalyst 3560 switch on our main floor. All the conference rooms and wireless access points are plugged directly into this external side. It's physically separate from our internal network, and my boss prefers it that way, and it works fine.
Now we've moved into some new space on the 6th floor of our building, and have run a fiber connection up there to provide network access. So the fiber runs from a fiber port on our Cisco catalyst 4506 core switch directly to a switch on the 6th floor. This also works fine. But now we want to have some wireless internet only access up there.
So my question is what's the fastest/easiest/cheapest way to extend this "external" network up to the 6th floor? I was thinking that I would have to put a switch up on the 6th floor and use it's gbic port to connect to another channel on the fiber run to come back down to our MDF room, where I would have another switch to plug it in to, and patch that into the "external" network side of the catalyst. I assuming this would work? But I'm also assuming there's an easier or less expensive way to do this? I didn't know if Cisco or someone else made a solution for this, or lighter equipment to do this.
basically I'm trying to go from an access point on the 6th floor to a fiber connection down to the 1st floor, to a Cisco Catalyst switch.
Any help is appreciated, thanks!
-Eric
I'm in an office building on the first floor. We have our "internet only" network running on the external side of a Cisco catalyst 3560 switch on our main floor. All the conference rooms and wireless access points are plugged directly into this external side. It's physically separate from our internal network, and my boss prefers it that way, and it works fine.
Now we've moved into some new space on the 6th floor of our building, and have run a fiber connection up there to provide network access. So the fiber runs from a fiber port on our Cisco catalyst 4506 core switch directly to a switch on the 6th floor. This also works fine. But now we want to have some wireless internet only access up there.
So my question is what's the fastest/easiest/cheapest way to extend this "external" network up to the 6th floor? I was thinking that I would have to put a switch up on the 6th floor and use it's gbic port to connect to another channel on the fiber run to come back down to our MDF room, where I would have another switch to plug it in to, and patch that into the "external" network side of the catalyst. I assuming this would work? But I'm also assuming there's an easier or less expensive way to do this? I didn't know if Cisco or someone else made a solution for this, or lighter equipment to do this.
basically I'm trying to go from an access point on the 6th floor to a fiber connection down to the 1st floor, to a Cisco Catalyst switch.
Any help is appreciated, thanks!
-Eric
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