Question

Sanskar University of Himachal Pradesh is setting up a secured network for its campus at Himachal Pradesh for operating their day-to-day office & web based activities. They are planning to have network connectivity between four buildings. Answer the question (i) to (iv) after going through the building positions in the campus & other details which are given below:

The distances between various buildings of university are given as:

Number of computers:

As a network expert, you are required to give best possible solutions for the given queries of the university administration:-

(a) Suggest cable layout for the connections between the various buildings,

(b) Suggest the most suitable building to house the server of the network of the university,

(c) Suggest the placement of following devices with justification:

1. Switch/Hub

2. Repeater

(d) Suggest the technology out of the following for setting-up very fast Internet connectivity among buildings of the university

1. Optical Fibre

2. Coaxial cable

3. Ethernet Cable

Answer 1

(a) Star topology

(b) Server should be placed at Main Building as it has the maximum number of computers.

(c) Hub/Switch each would be needed in all the buildings to interconnect the group of cables from the different computers in each building

A repeater needs to be placed along the wire between main building & finance building as the distance between them is more than 70 mtr.

(d) Optical Fibre