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The company is now using the offices from 6 AM to 12 midnight, with different peopleworking different hours to service customers in different time zones. Many cubicles arevirtualized or used for hoteling, with different occupants at different times or on different days.MegaCorp prides itself on providing good customer service.Campus Design: Technical FactorsYou conducted a network baseline. The baseline monitoring indicates that there is a moderatedegree of STP instability in the current network. This causes bursts of 50 second outages thatemployees do not complain about, because they have gotten so used to them. There is evidencethat the 100 Mbps uplinks from the closets are congested.The technical staff think Cisco VTP sounds interesting, as it might save having to createVLANs on switches to support moves, adds, changes.The CIO wants more availability than MegaCorp has at present, and has specifically asked for adesign using three building switches instead of two, to get better availability.The network staff asked that the switches quoted be “IPT and wireless ready”, whatever thatmeans.The draft Bill of Materials given you by the technical staff indicates a plan for all switches tobe equipped for Power over Ethernet (PoE) on all ports. They also asked for an option forequipment without PoE since power injectors sound less costly to some of the lead technicalstaff.© 2007Cisco Systems, Inc. Lab Guide 5