1. Which of the following applications require best-effort (unpredictable and unreliable), guaranteed (predictable and reliable, with accountability), or predictable service. Give masons for your choices. • High-quality (phone company-grade) voice calls • Voice over IP (VolP) calls• File transfers via FTP • Audio file downloads•&n...
Case Project 1-1Networking Gadgets, Inc. currently employs eight people but plans to hire 10 more in the next four months. Users will work on multiple projects, and only those users assigned to a project should have access to the project files. You're instructed to set up the network to make it easy to manage and back up yet still provide centralized storage for project files. • Would you choose a peer-to-peer network, a se...
You have been hired to upgrade a network of 50 computers currently connected to 10 Mbps hubs. This long-overdue upgrade is necessary because of poor network response time caused by a lot of collisions occurring during long file transfers between clients and servers. • How do you recommend upgrading this network? • What interconnecting devices will you use, and what benefit will you get from using thes...