Question

Workalot Consultants are setting up a secured network for their office campus at Gurgaon for their day-to-day office and web-based activities. They are planning to have connectivity between three buildings and the head office situated in Mumbai. Answer the questions (i) to (iv) after going through the building positions in the campus and other details, which are given below :

Distances between various buildings:

Number of computers

1. Suggest the most suitable place (i.e., building) to house the server of this organization. Also give a reason to justify your suggested location.

2. Suggest a cable layout of connections between the buildings inside the campus.

3. Suggest the placement of the following devices with justification:

• Repeater.
• Switch.

4. The organization is planning to provide a high-speed link with its head office situated in Mumbai using a wired connection. Which of the following cables will be most suitable for this job?

• Optical Fiber
• Co-axial Cable
• Ethernet Cable

Answer 1

1. The most suitable place to install server is building “RED” because this building have maximum computer which reduce communication delay.

2. Cable Layout.(Bus topology)

3. Repeater

Since the cabling distance between buildings GREEN, BLUE and RED are quite large, so a repeater each, would ideally be need along their path to avoid loss of signals during the course of data flow in there routes.

GURGAON Campus

Switch

In the layout a switch each, would be needed in all the buildings, to interconnect the group of cables from the different computers in each building.

4. Optical fiber