Global Village Enterprises has following four buildings in Hyderabad city :

Computers in each building are networked but buildings are not networked so far. The company has now decided to connect buildings also.

(a) Suggest a cable layout for these buildings.

(b) In each of the buildings, the management wants that each LAN segment gets a dedicated bandwidth i.e., bandwidth must not be shared. How can this be achieved ?

(c) The company also wants to make available shared Internet access for each of the buildings. How can this be achieved ?

(d) The company wants to link its head office in GV1 building to its another office in Japan.

1. Which type of transmission medium is appropriate for such a link ?
2. What type of network would this connection result into ?

"China Middleton Fashion" is planning to expand their network in India, starting with two cities in India to provide infrastructure for distribution of their product. The company has planned to setup their main office in Chennai at three different locations and have named their offices as "Production Unit", "Finance Unit" and "Media Unit". The company has its corporate unit in Delhi. A rough layout of the same is shown on the right :

Approximate distance between these Units is as follows :

In continuation of the above, the company experts have planned to install the following number of computers in each of their offices :

(i) Suggest the kind of network required (out of LAN, MAN, WAN) for connecting each of the following office units :

1. Production Unit and Media Unit
2. Production Unit and Finance Unit

(ii) Which one of the following devices will you suggest for connecting all the computers within each of their office units ?

1. Switch/Hub
2. Modem
3. Telephone

(iii) Which of the following communication media, you will suggest to be procured by the company for connecting their local office units in Chennai for very effective (High Speed) communication ?

1. Telephone Cable
2. Optical Fibre
3. Ethernet Cable

(iv) Suggest a cable/wiring layout for connecting the company's local office units located in Chennai. Also, suggest an effective method/technology for connecting the company's office unit located in Delhi.

INDIAN PUBLIC SCHOOL in Darjeeling is setting up the network between its different wings. There are 4 wings named as SENIORS(S), JUNIOR(J), ADMIN(A) and HOSTEL(H).

Distance between various wings are given below :

Number of Computers

(i) Suggest a suitable Topology for networking the computer of all wings.

(ii) Name the wing where the server is to be installed. Justify your answer.

(iii) Suggest the placement of Hub/Switch in the network.

(iv) Mention an economic technology to provide internet accessibility to all wings.

Eduminds University of India is starting its first campus in a small town Parampur of Central India with its center admission office in Delhi. The university has 3 major buildings comprising of Admin Building, Academic Building and Research Building in the 5 KM area Campus.

As a network expert, you need to suggest the network plan as per (1) to (4), keeping in mind the distances and other given parameters.

Expected Wire distances between various locations :

Expected number of Computers to be installed at various locations in the University are as follows :

(i) Suggest the authorities, the cable layout amongst various buildings inside the university campus for connecting the buildings.

(ii) Suggest the most suitable place (i.e., building) to house the server of this organisation, with a suitable reason.

(iii) Suggest an efficient device from the following to be installed in each of the buildings to connect all the computers :

1. GATEWAY
2. MODEM
3. SWITCH

(iv) Suggest the most suitable (very high speed) service to provide data connectivity between Admission Building located in Delhi and the campus located in Parampur from the following options.

1. Telephone line
2. Fixed-Line Dial-up connection
3. Co-axial Cable Network
4. GSM
5. Leased line
6. Satellite Connection