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Hi Spiceheads, I have an interesting one and wouldn’t mind your input and advice for choice of hardware and system setup:

We have acquired a new building of which we would like stable wireless connectivity to be throughout (a bit like hotels/airports where we can have 200+ people connected at a time and for each individual wireless client to be invisible to the other). This must be reliable.

The building will also consist of 50 individual businesses (Average 5 ppl per office) and then a further 100 individual users to roam and work wirelessly throughout the building as lone rangers.

Just to throw a spanner in the works, we would like a single internal phone system where anyone can pick up the phone in any room and dial one of the internal offices.

I’m not up to speed with networking so wondered how you would approach this scenario?

I was thinking 1x dedicated broadband (maybe leased line) to run the phone system and go VOIP.
Then 1x dedicated leased line broadband to run the wireless network (100 roaming users)
Perhaps then a couple more lines to support the 50 offices using vlans and managed switches.

Thoughts please?

@Cisco_Meraki_1

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Why not get one large pipe to supply internet to the building, and set up CoS to deliver the right amount of BW for each application and allocate it appropriately? Usually a lot more cost effective than buying all these separate lines - unless of course the leased lines will be ordered by different organizations…

Also, If you buy the phone service from the ISP, use MPLS back to their network to allow for QoS for the voip traffic. Internal dialing should not be an issue at all either. And If that same ISP can provide the Wireless AP, even better. All can be done by one carrier if you do it right. Save a ton of cash and enjoy a very simple management environment - one SLA, one Bill, one NOC etc.).

We have many carrier partners in the UK (250+ globally) - all with better than direct pricing. Happy to help design a solution and get it out to bid - both a single carrier solution and also piecing it together. PM me if you have interest. We help SpiceHeads migrate and navigate telecom installs every day!

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Would definitely recommend one big pipe and using QoS rather than several leased lines. But also make sure you have a backup ISP for fail over - wireless is good in case your lines get cut… It can happen.

Looks like you’re on the right track with using managed switches and vlans to segment everything. Meraki seems promising for a seamless switch and AP solution. Good luck!