Computer Science
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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(a) The cable layout for these buildings is given below:
GV1 - GV2 - GV3 - GV4
(b) A dedicated bandwidth can be achieved by using switches as it does not share the media/bandwidth among all its connected computers.
(c) Switches will be able to provide shared Internet access for each of the buildings.
(d) To connect head office in GV1 building to Japan office:
Satellite transmission would be appropriate.
It will be a WAN connection.
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