Inside an office network
The cabinet, cabling and Wi-Fi behind an ordinary office. Choose any part to see what it does, or trace a connection from the internet to a desk.
Fictional data, run in your browser. It doesn’t connect to, scan or change any real system, and nothing you choose is sent to exQ.
Explore the cabinet and the floor it serves
An illustrative 20U network cabinet and one office floor: the provider’s line, firewall, switches, patch panels, recorder and power, then the access point, camera and desks they serve.
- Copper
- Fibre
- Traced route
- Port in use
Firewall
The door between your office and the internet. It checks traffic against your rules and routes it between your network segments.
- Connects to
- WAN 1 to the provider’s router; its 10 Gb/s SFP+ port X1 to the core switch.
- Why it matters
- If it’s misconfigured, everything behind it is exposed. If it fails, nobody gets online. Its rules and firmware are reviewed, and its configuration is backed up.
What the lab is, and isn’t
An illustration of how a typical office network fits together, not a client’s network and not connected to any equipment. Port numbers, speeds and VLANs are an example; a real design starts from a survey of your site.
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