[dba-Tech] Designing a small to medium network

Hi All; Here is an interesting broad-brush article on designing reliable
small to medium sized networks. The are a lot of good points covered.

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/02/designing-a-highly-reliable-sma
ll-medium-business-network.ars

Note: that a lot of the suggested hardware for operations like
'load-balancing' for instance; do not require expensive hardware to perform
the functions. Much of it can be performed via various pieces of software
but you may need to integrate both Linux and Windows to create the best
solution.

Jim