“Bhartiya Connectivity Association” is planning to spread their office in four major cities in India to provide regional IT infrastructure support in the field of Education & Culture. The company has planned to setup their head office in New Delhi in three location and have named their New Delhi office has “Front Office”, “Back Office” and “Work Office”. The company has three more regional offices as “South Office”, “East Office” and “West Office” located in other major cities of India. A rough layout of the same is as follows:
Approximate distance between these office as per network survey team is as follows:
| Place From |
Place To |
Distance |
| Back Office |
Front Office |
10 KM |
| Back Office |
Work Office |
70 Meter |
| Back Office |
East Office |
1291 KM |
| Back Office |
West Office |
790 KM |
| Back Office |
South Office |
1952 KM |
In continuation of the above , the company experts have planned to install the following number of computers in each of their offices:
| Back Office |
100 |
| Front Office |
20 |
| Work Office |
50 |
| East Office |
50 |
| West Office |
50 |
| South Office |
50 |
(i) Suggest network type (out of LAN, MAN, WAN) for connecting each of the following set of their offices:
- Back Office and Work Office
- Back Office and South Office
(ii) Which device you will suggest to be produced by the company for connecting all the computers with in each of their offices out of the following devices?
- Switch/Hub
- Modem
- Telephone
(iii) Which of the following communication medium, you will suggest to be procured by the company for connecting their local office units in New Delhi for very effective and fast communication?
- Telephone Cable
- Optical Fiber
- Ethernet Cable
Suggest a cable/wiring layout for connecting the company’s local office located in New Delhi. Also, suggest an effective method/technology for connecting the company’s regional office –“East Office”, “West Office” and “South Office” with offices located in New Delhi.
