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The need
The campus has four buildings, an exam room that has to be isolated on test days, classroom displays and staff access points, canteen tills, and cameras at the gates. Everything sat on one subnet with fixed addresses, so a student device could reach a till and the exam room could not be isolated without unplugging it. The IT lead also wanted old lab equipment kept off the main network without replacing it.
What was specified
| Model | Qty | Role in the project |
|---|---|---|
| RS1024K-24L-4S-M | 4 | One per building, 24 ports, fibre SFP back to the campus core |
| RS1008K-P8-2S-M | 8 | Floor PoE for classroom displays, staff access points and corridor cameras |
| RS1001G-1S | 6 | Single-port conversion for legacy lab instruments on their own VLAN |
Why that split
One switch per building keeps the fibre count at four and puts the ports where the classrooms are. The floor PoE units carry the displays and access points, which is where the cable runs are longest and where a single uplink per floor is enough. Legacy instruments get a converter so they stay isolated: they cannot be patched into the classroom VLAN and cannot be reached from the student network, and the school does not have to replace working equipment to get that separation.
Result
- The exam room moves to its own VLAN on test days by schedule, not by unplugging.
- Canteen tills are unreachable from classroom and student devices.
- Legacy lab instruments stay in service on an isolated VLAN.
Quantities in the table are the planned build, not a bill of materials for a specific tender.
