GreenTech has 200 networked computers and five servers and uses a star topology wired network to reach employees' offices, with a bus interconnecting three floors in its office building. Because of a staggering influx of Internet business, the network administrator's task is to boost network performance and availability as much as possible. The company also wants a network design which is easy to reconfigure and add more computers to the existing network change because workgroups form and disband frequently and their membership changes regularly. All computers must share sensitive data and control access to customer files and databases. Aside from the customer information and billing databases, which run on all servers, employees' desktop computers must run standard word-processing and spreadsheet programs. Use the following write-on lines to evaluate the requirements for this network. a. What type of topology should be used in this network? b. Will the network be peer to peer or server based? Explain your answer.
GreenTech has 200 networked computers and five servers and uses a star topology wired network to reach employees' offices, with a bus interconnecting three floors in its office building. Because of a staggering influx of Internet business, the network administrator's task is to boost network performance and availability as much as possible. The company also wants a network design which is easy to reconfigure and add more computers to the existing network change because workgroups form and disband frequently and their membership changes regularly. All computers must share sensitive data and control access to customer files and
a. What type of topology should be used in this network?
b. Will the network be peer to peer or server based? Explain your answer.
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