Network Diagrams by Industry · Book 2
Draw Secure School Network Diagrams
From Classroom to Campus Network
Draw the campus, not the chaos.
Network diagrams that survive the first day of school, the E-Rate audit and the summer project.
This book is for you if…
- You run the network for a district of a few to a few dozen schools, often with one to five people
- You're the technology director who has to show the board, the insurer and the E-Rate consultant what they bought
- You run a small college or private school: one campus, many buildings, students on Wi-Fi
Same shape as every book in the series
Each chapter opens with a short scene where a bad diagram goes wrong, then gives a handful of rules, a real screenshot from the free NetDiagrams tool, a "No NetBox yet?" note, and a Monday-morning checklist you can finish in an hour.
Start now with the free education edition of the data collection worksheets, the ones Appendix G explains column by column.
Read Chapter 3 free, no sign-up: School Network Segmentation: Zones for Students, Staff, Guests and Building Systems.
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Table of contents
17 chapters and 9 appendices
- CH 0Why Your Diagram Is Lying
- CH 1One District, a Dozen Audiences
- CH 2The Page Your Superintendent Actually Reads
- CH 3Zones for SchoolsRead free →
- CH 4Zones on Paper: The Logical Page
- CH 5Cables Are Data: MDF, IDFs and the Portables
- CH 6Closets, PoE and Optics
- CH 7Pairs, Stacks and State-Testing Day
- CH 8Wireless for Two Thousand Chromebooks
- CH 9Draw the Conversations
- CH 10The Flow Register
- CH 11The District WAN
- CH 12NetBox Is the Source, the Drawing Is the View
- CH 13Diagrams Rot over the Summer
- CH 14Share It Without Leaking It
- CH 15No Drawing Yet? Start Monday
- CH 16From Drawn to Enforced
- APP ADiagram Crimes Gallery (School Edition)
- APP BScore Your DiagramFree quiz →
- APP COne-Page Poster
- APP DNetBox Field Cheat Sheet
- APP EGlossary
- APP FGetting Your School into NetBox
- APP GData Collection WorksheetsFree worksheets →
- APP HNaming Schemes for Districts
- APP ICustom Fields for Schools
Pricing
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- Printable one-page poster
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FAQ
Questions
Do I need NetBox?
No. Every rule works by hand with draw.io and a spreadsheet, and every tool section ends with a short "No NetBox yet?" note. Appendix F walks you through getting your data into NetBox when you're ready.
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Is the NetDiagrams tool free?
Yes. The tool is open source under the Apache-2.0 license, and the book's screenshots are its real output. You don't need to buy the book to use the tool.
Is there a Kindle edition?
Yes, at $29.99. It has the same text, but the drawings are easier to read in the 6x9 PDF, which only comes with a copy bought here.
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All 10 books (manufacturing, education, warehousing and logistics, retail, offices, banks and credit unions, local government, hotels and hospitality, corporate hq and multi-site, car dealerships), each as PDF and EPUB, from one download link. Bought separately they'd be $390. It covers the books out today; a future book is sold separately.
Can I pick just two or three books?
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NetDiagrams and this series are made by SegAudit LLC, a Wisconsin company that builds network segmentation tools. We build the free NetDiagrams tool, and the book's screenshots are its real output. The tool works with the free, open-source NetBox.
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