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Chapter 6, Problem 1MC

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Logical design of enterprise campus:

LANs (local area networks) for an enterprise campus can be designed in the following ways.

Priority 1:

  • The LAN (local area network) usually designed as a physical star topology that connects computers on each floor with UTP (Unshielded twisted pair) cabling to a switch.
  • In addition to the wired network, a wireless technology is also suggested to each building based on the already placed wired network, number of users, and size of the building.
  • The company could get the network using 802.11n access point on odd numbers floors.
  • So, these would possibly give sufficient wireless access to the users.

Priority 2:

  • The switches on each floor would be connected to the main switch on the first floor of each building...

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Reason of designing the network:

The reason of designing network in the above manner are as follows:

  • In this network design each person on campus could have internet connectivity and a...

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