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Case Study Problems a)

I would suggest Bus Topology to be used for this company. The reason why I chose bus topology as that it suits the purpose of doing networking sharing peripherals!de"ices and enabling sharing of files. The company would benefit e"en more on bus topology compared to other types of topology. #mong the benefit of bus o"er other topologies when applied in the company network$ %ow cost and cheap. It won&t be a hassle and does not re'uire a large sum to be in"ested upon going for bus topology The ease to connect a computer to e(tend the network and so on The ease to attach!connect a de"ice or new peripheral to the bus topology based network %ess cabling needed and less comple(ity in installing managing and handling the network Diagram attached on a single sheet behind

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)or bus topology a 1*Base+, -.Thin/et.) and 1*Base+0 -.Thick/et.) is re'uired to link up. # terminator is also a re'uirement to handle those data free current. # hub and repeater is also re'uired as a hub multiple 1thernet segments together making them act as a single segment. The central connecting de"ice in a computer network is known as a hub. There are two types of a hub i.e. acti"e hub and passi"e hub. 1"ery computer is directly connected with the hub. 2hen data packets arri"es at hub it broadcast them to all the %#/ cards in a network and the destined recipient picks them and all other computers discard the data packets. 3ub has fi"e eight si(teen and more ports and one port is known as uplink port which is used to connect with the ne(t hub.. # repeater on the other hand is a de"ice to amplify or regenerate digital signals recei"ed while sending them from one part of a network into another. #part from it a router is also recommended to be added on into the network. # router is a communication de"ice that is used to connect two logically and physically different networks two %#/s two 2#/s and a %#/ with 2#/. The main function of the router is to sorting and the distribution of the data packets to their destinations based on their IP addresses. 4outers pro"ides the connecti"ity between the enterprise businesses ISPs and in the internet infrastructure router is a main de"ice. Cisco routers are widely used in the world. 1"ery router has routing software which is known as I5S. 4outer operates at the network layer of the 5SI model. 4outer does not broadcast the data packets.

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