A large multinational financial institution has engaged you to design a new full-stack wired and wireless network for its new 6-story regional office building. The facility’s bottom two floors will be retail space for a large banking branch. The upper floors will be carpeted corporate office space, with each floor 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 a mixture of wired and wireless devices will be deployed throughout the retail floors. Corporate users will mainly use wireless connectivity, 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 chose to authenticate wired headless devices using Mac Authentication, with RADIUS attributes returned to the NAD to assign VLAN and port-access parameters to the authentication session on the switch port.
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