Question

Granada Consultants are setting up a secured network for their office campus at Faridabad for their day to day office and web-based activities. They are planning to have connectivity between 3 building and the head office situated in Kolkata. 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., block) 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 the KOLKATA using a wired connection. Which of the following cable will be most suitable for this job?

• Optical Fibre
• Co-axial Cable
• Ethernet Cable

Answer 1

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

2. Cable layout. (Bus topology).

3. Repeater 

Since the cabling distance between buildings GANGA and JAMUNA are quite large, so a repeater each, would ideally be needed along their path to avoid loss of signals during the course of data flow in these routes.

Switch

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

4. Optical fiber