reaction paper
CASE STUDIES IN CHAPTER 1
CASE NO. 1
You were recently hired as a network consultant by RPD Enterprise, the only local supplier of business equipment and office supplies in Bontoc. Because of lack of competition, the owners have not reinvested in the business. A nationality recognized competitor recently opened for business with plans to put RPD out of business. In response, the owners have decided to reinvest substantial sums of money in the company. One of their first projects is to a local area network that will link employee computers. Before they invest money in the network, they want to know more about networks. Use the Web and/or print media material to answer the following questions put forward by the owners. What are the advantages of having a network? What are the disadvantages? What type of network best suited for our company – a peer to peer network or client/server network? What transmission media should the company use? Why? What type of problems can we expect with a network? Write brief report or use PowePoint to create a presentation and share your findings with your class.
ANSWER:
The advantages of having a network is files can be transferred from one computer to another, centralized printers, centralized information (an intranet web server, for example), programs can be run off a server, so updating means updating a single program, not one on each computer (which can be a nightmare if there are a few hundred computers), centralized data backup. While the disadvantages are someone has to administer and maintain the network, it costs for equipment and wiring (but makes up for it in productivity). I think the network best suited in company is Client/server network. Client/server describes the relationship between two computer programs in which one program, the client, makes a service request from another program, the server, which fulfills the request. Although the client/server idea can be used by programs within a single computer, it is
CASE NO. 1
You were recently hired as a network consultant by RPD Enterprise, the only local supplier of business equipment and office supplies in Bontoc. Because of lack of competition, the owners have not reinvested in the business. A nationality recognized competitor recently opened for business with plans to put RPD out of business. In response, the owners have decided to reinvest substantial sums of money in the company. One of their first projects is to a local area network that will link employee computers. Before they invest money in the network, they want to know more about networks. Use the Web and/or print media material to answer the following questions put forward by the owners. What are the advantages of having a network? What are the disadvantages? What type of network best suited for our company – a peer to peer network or client/server network? What transmission media should the company use? Why? What type of problems can we expect with a network? Write brief report or use PowePoint to create a presentation and share your findings with your class.
ANSWER:
The advantages of having a network is files can be transferred from one computer to another, centralized printers, centralized information (an intranet web server, for example), programs can be run off a server, so updating means updating a single program, not one on each computer (which can be a nightmare if there are a few hundred computers), centralized data backup. While the disadvantages are someone has to administer and maintain the network, it costs for equipment and wiring (but makes up for it in productivity). I think the network best suited in company is Client/server network. Client/server describes the relationship between two computer programs in which one program, the client, makes a service request from another program, the server, which fulfills the request. Although the client/server idea can be used by programs within a single computer, it is