We are moving into a new 500m2 office building from 4 different smaller offices. We have around 50 employees, so guessing around 100 devices, computer and a mobile phone for everyone. The space already has a rack, a 48-port managed switch installed and all the wiring done. We have 8 Asus ZenWifi XT9 nodes laying around which we plan on using as WiFi APs. Obviously not everyone will be able to connect via LAN, but WiFi is good enough for most people, so no plans on expanding the local network right now.
We are planning to get two different providers with optical internet connection, one is 1000/500mbps, the other one is 1000/1000. We plan to use them for failover and load balancing. None will allow us to use our own ONT, but we can place the one we are getting from them in bridge mode. One of them will allow us to connect with PPPoE credentials, the other one uses DHCP. Both will have static IPv4 address. We will need a wireguard VPN server setup for remote work (probably not over 10 people at a time). The most connection intensive tasks for the employees would be teams calls, so we don't expect a very high load on the network. Currently we have 600/60 connection in each of the offices, and everything works all right. Now that we are moving in a single space, we would like to do it right.
What kind of hardware would you recommend us getting to accomplish these tasks? I do know some routerOS but we would definitely get someone to set everything up and maintain it afterwards, don't want that on my back. Budget is not a huge issue, but would like not to spend too much, maybe you can recommend the bare minimum to handle this, and then what would be the ideal hardware for the task?
Thanks in advance,
Danilo
We are planning to get two different providers with optical internet connection, one is 1000/500mbps, the other one is 1000/1000. We plan to use them for failover and load balancing. None will allow us to use our own ONT, but we can place the one we are getting from them in bridge mode. One of them will allow us to connect with PPPoE credentials, the other one uses DHCP. Both will have static IPv4 address. We will need a wireguard VPN server setup for remote work (probably not over 10 people at a time). The most connection intensive tasks for the employees would be teams calls, so we don't expect a very high load on the network. Currently we have 600/60 connection in each of the offices, and everything works all right. Now that we are moving in a single space, we would like to do it right.
What kind of hardware would you recommend us getting to accomplish these tasks? I do know some routerOS but we would definitely get someone to set everything up and maintain it afterwards, don't want that on my back. Budget is not a huge issue, but would like not to spend too much, maybe you can recommend the bare minimum to handle this, and then what would be the ideal hardware for the task?
Thanks in advance,
Danilo
Statistics: Posted by daxyco — Wed May 22, 2024 9:41 am