A 12-building, 400-acre campus network — a dual-core diverse-fiber backbone, a worked client-count wireless sizing calculation for a 400-seat lecture hall, and a per-building /21 VLAN and IP addressing plan that summarizes 72 subnets into 12 core routes.
The project brief: 12 buildings — academic halls, residence halls, a library, student center, administration, and athletics — connected by a redundant, diverse-routed fiber backbone to two geographically separate core sites, high-density Wi-Fi 6/6E sized by expected simultaneous client count rather than square footage, and a large-scale VLAN and IP addressing plan built around per-building route summarization. Where Project 1 solves connectivity within one building's walls, this project's defining problem is distance and multiplicity across a dozen buildings.
This module walks the whole project end to end: the dual-core, diverse-fiber-path backbone design and why a single core site isn't survivable at campus scale, a full worked calculation sizing access points for a 400-seat lecture hall by client count instead of coverage area, and the per-building /21 addressing scheme that collapses 72 individual VLAN routes into 12 core summary routes. The full worked numbers and complete bill of materials are part of the unlocked module below.