It 331- Unit 5 Lan

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1. A family wishes to connect several devices to share an Internet connection and a Bluetooth wireless printer. They have three personal computers. One is in the same room as the printer. The other two are together in another room. In addition, they want to utilize the network for television DVR, VoIP phone, and game console. Describe what network device or devices you would recommend they purchase and explain why. Also, describe the media utilized. Note, you are not required to detail the topology utilized, but thinking about this will help you to choose and justify your device choices. I would recommend that they get a router, a modem, and Ethernet cable. The can easily use the computer next to the printer to connect to it and then all the other computers on the network can share that resource. The Ethernet cables can attach all the computers, DVR, VoIP phone, and game console to the network. They can hook the router to the modem so that all the devices can access the internet as long as the router is setup and gives them permission. 2. An enterprise-level company wishes to set up a network to support several hundred business users as well as manufacturing equipment in a new building. Describe what network device or devices you would recommend they purchase and explain why. Note, you are not required to detail the media or topology utilized, but thinking about these will help you to choose and justify your device choices. It would need a large server room full of servers, and routers and switches to connect the several hundred business users to the network. Each workstation will need to connect to the switches in the server room through either wire or wireless access. For wired access they will need Ethernet cable, Cat5 twisted pair, is the most common, but there are also more expensive fiber optic Ethernet cables that allow data
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