QuestionQ9

Analyze requirements

A large multinational financial institution has hired you to design a new full-stack wired and wireless network for its new 6-story regional office building. The bottom two floors of the facility will provide retail space for a large banking branch. The upper floors will be carpeted corporate office space, with each floor measuring approximately 100,000 sq ft (9290 sq m). All data centers are offsite and outside this project’s scope. The customer is underserved by its existing L2-based network infrastructure and wants to use modern best practices in the new design. The network must be fully resilient and fault-tolerant, with dynamic segmentation at the edge.

The retail space will provide public guest Wi-Fi access. Retail associates will use corporate tablets for customer service, and the retail floors will contain a mixture of wired and wireless devices. Corporate users will primarily connect wirelessly, although several wired clients, printers, and hard VoIP phones will be used.

The customer also plans to renovate the corporate office space to take advantage of 'smart office' technology. These enhancements will enable blue-dot wayfinding, presence analytics, and other location-based services.

The client has supplied floorplans, wall density, and ceiling heights for the wireless deployment in the carpeted office space.

What additional information is needed to produce an accurate bill of material?

Choose two
  • A flooring information
  • B PoE port details
  • C ceiling construction details
  • D sprinkler details
Explanation

Ceiling construction affects RF propagation and determines the mounting method and hardware required for access points. PoE port requirements determine the access-switch port count, PoE standard, and power budget needed to power access points, hard VoIP phones, and other powered devices. Cisco notes that predictive wireless surveys rely on floor plans and building-material estimates, and that AP deployments require an identified PoE power option.

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