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How do you set up a business network?

I’m somewhat new to networking, and what I need to build one for a class assignment (so no really in depth answers needed). I have to design a network for a business of my choosing. I was thinking a logistics company. They would have a main office and then another random branch. The company would consist of 30 PC’s in the main office and 10 in the branch which is in another city. There would be a program everyone could access to pull up customer information, truck company information, and from here edit it. It would have internal email systems in place, and a website. If possible the company would be using VOIP for the phone system (optional), but don’t want to make things over difficult. How would I go about setting this up? What type of server(s) am I looking at using? What type of routers and switches would I need? What type of software would I use that would be critical to the IT infrastructure? Am I backing data up on Tapes (really new to this concept)? If I missed anything feel free to add on. Think I will just use a version of Windows for the PC’s OS, and would like to make things easy and just using a Windows Server program also. Like I said just need a general run down, I can BS the paper, but would like to know the fundamentals I would actually need. Any help would be greatly appreciated

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1. to go from one building to another over a long distance you would need a vpn (virtual privatized network) Which uses the internet to make a connection so in both buildings it will look like you are on the same lan and you can get to the same server from both places.