Computer Science
"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 :
| From | To | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Production Unit | Finance Unit | 70 m |
| Production Unit | Media Unit | 15 km |
| Production Unit | Corporate Unit | 2112 km |
| Finance Unit | Media Unit | 15 km |
In continuation of the above, the company experts have planned to install the following number of computers in each of their offices :
| Production Unit | 150 |
| Finance Unit | 35 |
| Media Unit | 10 |
| Corporate Unit | 30 |
(i) Suggest the kind of network required (out of LAN, MAN, WAN) for connecting each of the following office units :
- Production Unit and Media Unit
- 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 ?
- Switch/Hub
- Modem
- 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 ?
- Telephone Cable
- Optical Fibre
- 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.
Answer
(i) The network used to connect :
- Production Unit and Media Unit is MAN as the distance is about 15 km.
- Production Unit and Finance Unit is LAN as the distance is less than 1 km.
(ii) Switch/Hub
(iii) Optical Fibre
(iv) Two possible cable/wiring layouts for connecting the company's local office units located in Chennai are given below:
Production Unit - Finance Unit - Media Unit
Media Unit - Production Unit - Finance Unit
Satellite links can be established for connecting the company's office unit located in Delhi.
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Approximate distance between these offices is as follows :
From To Distance Work Office Back Office 110 m Work Office Factory 14 km Work Office Corporate Office 1280 km Back Office Factory 13 km In continuation of the above, the company experts have planned to install the following number of computers in each of their offices :
Work Office 200 Back Office 115 Factory 67 Corporate 75 (i) Suggest the kind of network required (out of LAN, MAN, WAN) for connecting each of the following offices:
- Work Office and Factory
- Work Office and Back Office
(ii) Which one of the following devices will you suggest for connecting all the computers within each of their office units ?
- Switch/Hub
- Modem
- Telephone
(iii) Which of the following communication media, you will suggest to be procured by the company for connecting their local offices in Ahmedabad for very effective (High Speed) communication ?
- Telephone Cable
- Optical Fibre
- Ethernet Cable
(iv) Suggest a cable/wiring layout for connecting the company's local office units located in Ahmedabad. Also, suggest an effective method/technology for connecting the company's office unit located in Delhi.
(v) Which one of the following devices will you suggest for connecting all the computers within each of their offices ?
- Switch/Hub
- Modem
- Telephone
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.
- Which type of transmission medium is appropriate for such a link ?
- What type of network would this connection result into ?
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Approximate distances between these offices as per network survey team is as follows :
Place From Place To Distance Back Office Front Office 10 km Back Office Work Office 70 m Back Office East Office 1291 km Back Office West Office 790 km Back Office South Office 1952 km In continuation of the above, the company experts have planned to install the following number of computers in each of their offices :
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- Back Office and Work Office
- Back Office and South Office
(ii) Which device you will suggest to be produced by the company for connecting all the computers with in each of their offices out of the following devices ?
- Switch/Hub
- Modem
- Telephone
(iii) Which of the following communication medium, you will suggest to be procured by the company for connecting their local offices in New Delhi for very effective and fast communication ?
- Telephone Cable
- Optical Fibre
- Ethernet Cable
(iv) Suggest a cable/wiring layout for connecting the company's local offices located in New Delhi. Also, suggest an effective method/technology for connecting the company's regional offices-"East Office", "West Office" and "South Office" with offices located in New 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 :
Wing A to Wing S 100 m Wing A to Wing J 200 m Wing A to Wing H 400 m Wing S to Wing J 300 m Wing S to Wing H 100 m Wing J to Wing H 450 m Number of Computers
Wing A 10 Wing S 200 Wing J 100 Wing H 50 (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.