One important issue in designing Ethernet lies in making sure that if a computer transmits a frame, any other computer that attempts to transmit at the same time will be able to hear the incoming frame before it stops trans- mitting, or else a collision might go unnoticed. For example, assume that we are on the earth and send an Ethernet frame over a very long piece of category 5 wire to the moon. If a computer on the moon starts Transmitting at the same time as we do on the earth and finishes transmitting before our frame arrives at the moon, there will be a collision, but neither computer will detect it; the frame will be garbled, but no one will know why. So, in designing Ethernet, we must make sure that the length of cable in the LAN is shorter than the length of the shortest possible frame that can be sent. Otherwise, a collision could go undetected. a. Let’s assume that the smallest possible message is 64 bytes (including the 33-byte overhead). If we use 100 Base-T, how long (in meters) is a 64-byte message? While electricity in the cable travels a bit slower than the speed of light, once you include delays in the electrical equipment in transmitting and receiving the signal, the defective speed is only about 40 million meters per second. (First calculate the number of seconds it would take to transmit the frame then calculate the number of meters the signal would travel in that time, and you have the total length of the frame.) b. If we use 10GbE, how long (in meters) is a 64-byte frame? c. The answer in part b is the maximum distance any single cable could run from a switch to a computer in an Ethernet LAN. How would you overcome the problem implied by this? 2. Pat’s Petunias: You have been called in as a network consultant by your cousin Pat, who operates a successful mail-order lower business. She is moving to a new office and wants to install a network for her telephone operators, who take phone calls and enter orders into the system. he number of operators working varies depending on the time of day and day of the week. On slow shits, there are usually only 10 operators, whereas at peak times, there are 50. She has bids from different companies to install (1) Wi-Fi or (2) a switched Ethernet 100Base-T network. She wants you to give her some sense of the relative performance of the alternatives so she can compare that with their different costs. What would you recommend? 3. Eureka! Eureka! is a telephone-and Internet-based concierge service that specializes in obtaining things that are hard to find (e.g., Super Bowl tickets, first-edition books from the 1500s, and Fabergé eggs). It currently employs staff members who work 24 hours per day (over three shits), with usually five to seven staff members working at any given time. Staff members answer the phone and respond to requests entered on the Eureka! website. Much of their work is spent on the phone and on computers searching on the Internet. hey have just leased a new office and are about to wire it. They have bids from different companies to install (a) a 100Base-T network or (b) a Wi-Fi network. What would you recommend? Why? 4. Tom’s Home Automation: Your cousin Tom runs a small construction company that builds custom houses. He has just started a new specialty service that he is offering to other builders on a subcontracting basis: home automation. He provides a complete service of installing cable in all the rooms in which the homeowner wants data access and installs the necessary networking devices to provide a LAN that will connect all the computers in the house to the Internet. Most homeowners choose to install a DSL or cable modem Internet connection that provides a 12–25 Mbps from the house to the Internet. Most homeowners choose to install a DSL or cable modem Internet connection that provides a 12–25 Mbps from the house to the Internet. Tom has come to you for advice about whether he should continue to offer wiring services (which often cost $50 per room) or whether wireless is a better direction. What type of LAN would you recommend? 5. Sally’s Shoes: Sally Smith runs a shoe store in the mall that is about 30 feet by 50 feet in size, including a small office and a storage area in the rear. The store has one inventory computer in the storage area and one computer in the office. She is replacing the two cash registers with computers that will act as cash registers but will also be able to communicate with the inventory computer. Sally wants to network the computers with a LAN. What sort of LAN design would you recommend? Draw a picture. 6. South West State University: South West State University installed a series of four Wi-Fi Omni-directional Aps spread across the ceiling of the main floor of its library. The main floor has several large, open areas plus two dozen or so small offices spread around the outside walls. The WLAN worked well for one semester, but now more students are using the network, and performance has deteriorated significantly. What would you recommend that they do? Be sure to support your recommendations. 7. Household Wireless: Your sister is building a new two-story house (which measures 50 feet long by 30 feet wide) and wants to make sure that it is capable of networking her family’s three computers together. She and her husband are both consultants and work out of their home in the evenings and a few days a month (each has a separate office with a computer, plus a laptop from the office that is occasionally used). The kids also have a computer in their play- room. They have several options for networking their home: a. Wire the two offices and playroom with Ethernet Cat 5e cable and put in a 1000Base-T switch for $40. b. Install one Wi-Fi AP ($85) and put Wi-Fi cards in the three computers for $50 each (their laptops already have Wi-Fi). c. Any combination of these options. What would you recommend? Justify your recommendation. 8. Ubiquitous Offices: Ubiquitous Offices provides temporary office space in cities around the country. They have a standard office layout that is a single floor with outside dimensions of 150 feet wide by 150 feet long. The interior is drywall offices. They have 1000Base-T but want to add wireless access as well. How many APs would you buy, and where would you put them? Draw the office and show where the Aps would go. 9. ABC Warehouse: ABC Warehouse is a single-floor facility with outside dimensions of 100 feet wide by 350 feet long. The interior is open, but there are large metal shelving units throughout the building to hold all the goods in the warehouse. How many APs would you buy, and where would you put them? Draw the warehouse and show where the Aps would go. 10. Metro Motel: Metro Motel is a four-story motel on the outskirts of town. The outside dimensions of the motel are 60 feet wide by 200 feet long, and each story is about 10 feet high. Each floor (except the ground floor) has 20 rooms (drywall construction).here is a central corridor with room son both sides. How many APs would you buy, and where would you put them? Draw the motel and show where the APs would go. Required: 1. (a) Let’s assume that the smallest possible message is 64 bytes (including the 33-byte overhead). If we use 100Base-T, how long (in meters) is a 64-byte message? While electricity in the cable travels a bit slower than the speed of light, once you include delays in the electrical equipment in transmitting and receiving the signal, the effective speed is only about 40 million meters per second. (b) If we use 10GbE, how long (in meters) is a 64-byte frame? (c) The answer in part b is the maximum distance any single cable could run from a switch to a computer in an Ethernet LAN. How would you overcome the problem implied by this? 2. On slow shifts, there are usually only 10 operators, whereas at peak times, here are 50. She has bids from different companies to install (a) a shared Ethernet 100Base-T network, or (b) a switched Ethernet 100Base-T network. She wants you to give her some sense of the relative performance of the alternatives so they can compare that with their different costs. What would you recommend? 3. Eureka has just leased a new office and are about to wire it. They have bids from different companies to install (a) 100 Base-T network, or (c) a WI-FI network. What would you recommend? Why? 4. Should he continue to offer wiring services, which often cost $50 per room) or is wireless a better direction? What type of LAN would you recommend? Why? 5. Sally wants to network the computer with a LAN. What sort of LAN design would you recommend? Draw a picture. 6. With a wireless network installed in the library of South West State University, how should they protect the network performance? 7. Is your sister’s new house going to need any special wiring? 8. How many access points would you buy for the Ubiquitous Office? Where would you place them? 9. How many access points would you buy for the Ubiquitous Office? Where would you place them? 10. How many access points would you buy for the Ubiquitous Office? Where would you place them?
> On what should the design plan be based?
> How can a network design tool help in network design?
> Describe how a Web browser and Web server work together to send a Web page to a user.
> Describe the key parts of the technology design step.
> Why is it important to analyze needs in terms of both application systems and users? 1
> What is the most important principle in designing networks?
> Describe the three major steps in current network design.
> For what types of networks are network design tools most important? Why?
> Why do you think some organizations were slow to adopt a building-block approach to network design?
> How does the traditional approach to network design differ from the building-block approach?
> Is it important to have the fastest wireless LAN technology in your apartment? What about in the library of your school? Explain.
> What is a bottleneck, and why do network managers care about them?
> What are typical speeds for the LAN, building backbone, and campus backbone? Why?
> For what is HTML used?
> What is the difference between a building backbone and a campus backbone, and what are the implications for the design of each?
> What are the seven network architecture components?
> What is the turnpike effect, and why is it important in network design?
> What issues are important to consider in explaining a network design to senior management?
> What is a network baseline, and when is it established?
> What are some major problems that can cause network designs to fail?
> What are the key parts of an RFP?
> What are the keys to designing a successful data communications network?
> How does dynamic addressing work?
> What is a subnet mask?
> For what is HTTP used? What are its major parts?
> What is a subnet and why do networks need them?
> How does TCP establish a session?
> How is TCP different from UDP?
> Compare and contrast the three types of addresses used in a network.
> What are the parts of TCP/IP and what do they do? Who is the primary user of TCP/IP?
> Describe the anatomy of a router. How does a router differ from a computer?
> What is the transmission efficiency of a 5,000-byte file sent in response to a Web request HTTP, TCP/IP, and Ethernet? Assume that the HTTP packet has 100 bytes in addition to the 5,000-byte file. Assume that the maximum packet size is 1,200 bytes. Remem
> What is the transmission efficiency of a 1,000-byte file sent in response to a Web request HTTP, TCP/IP, and Ethernet? Assume that the HTTP packet has 100 bytes in addition to the 1,000-byte file. Remember from Chapter 4 that deficiency = user data/total
> What is the transmission efficiency of a 10-byte Web request sent using HTTP, TCP/IP, and Ether-net? Assume that the HTTP packet has 100 bytes in addition to the 10-byte URL. Remember from Chapter 4 that deficiency = user data/total transmission size.
> What type of routing does a TCP/IP client use? What type of routing does a TCP/IP gateway use? Explain.
> What is a network computer?
> How does static routing differ from dynamic routing? When would you use static routing? When would you use dynamic routing?
> Why does HTTP use TCP and DNS use UDP?
> Explain how the client computer in Figure5-16 (128.192.98.xx) would obtain the data link layer address of its subnet router.
> Explain how multicasting works.
> What does the network layer do?
> Compare and contrast unicast, broadcast, and multicast messages.
> What is QoS routing and why is it useful?
> What is a session?
> What are the differences between connectionless and connection-oriented messaging?
> How does decentralized routing differ from centralized routing?
> Compare and contrast the three cloud computing models.
> What are the different types of application architectures?
> Which is best for the International Services Division, a dedicated-server network or peer-to-peer LAN? Explain your choice. 2. Draw a network plan using Microsoft Visio that includes the general layout of the LAN (computers, servers, cables, hubs/switche
> Computer Dynamics is a microcomputer software development company that has a 300-computer network. The company is located in three adjacent five-story buildings in an office park, with about 100 computers in each building. The LANs in each building are s
> Review the topics in this chapter. Prepare an agenda for your training session. The agenda should be an outline, showing topics and subtopics with enough detail to allow the reader to follow. Remember Bob Jones' advice on what the management and staff wi
> Suppose that you are the network manager for Central University, a medium-sized university with 13,000 students. The university has 10 separate colleges (e.g., business, arts, journalism), 3 of which are relatively large (300 faculty and staff members, 2
> What file transfer protocols would you recommend? Be prepared to support your recommendations. 2. Prepare a brief position paper on the types of errors you can expect in the NDAS network and the steps you believe NDAS can take to prevent, detect, and cor
> Smith, Smith, Smith, and Smith is a regional accounting firm that is putting up a new headquarters building. he building will have a backbone network that connects eight LANs (two on each floor). he company is very concerned with network errors. What adv
> Fred Jones, a distant relative of yours and president of Deals-R-Us Brokers (DRUB), has come to you for advice. DRUB is a small brokerage house that enables its clients to buy and sell stocks over the Internet, as well as place traditional orders by phon
> Briefly describe the current state of Next Day Air Service's office automation, system integration, and networking. Begin by explaining how each department uses information technology, what hardware it uses, and what functions currently are automated. Al
> Eureka! is a telephone- and Internet- based concierge service that specializes in obtaining things that are hard to find (e.g., Super Bowl tickets, first-edition books from the 1500s, Faberge eggs). It currently employs 60 staff members who collectively
> John Adams is the chief information officer (CIO) of Global Consultants (GC), a very large consulting firm with offices in more than 100 countries around the world. GC is about to purchase a set of several Internet-based financial software packages that
> City School District is a large, urban school district that operates 27 schools serving 22,000 students from kindergarten through grade 12. All schools are networked into a regional WAN that connects the schools to the district central office and each ot
> Prepare a report outlining the major security threats faced by NDAS. Be sure to identify those that you think are major threats and those that are minor threats. 2. Prepare a partial risk assessment for NDAS that includes their major assets, threats and
> Belmont State Bank is a large bank with hundreds of branches that are connected to a central computer system. Some branches are connected over dedicated circuits and others use Multi-Protocol Label Switching(MPLS). Each branch has a variety of client com
> What type of Internet access technologies would you recommend for the Atlanta, New Orleans, and the corporate office in Tampa and other locations as well? 2. Outline the advantages and disadvantages of the three approaches to for creating a web presence
> Your cousin Cathy runs a part-time business out of her apartment. She buys and sells collectibles such as antique prints, baseball cards, and cartoon cells and has recently discovered the Web with its many auction sites. She has begun buying and selling
> With your knowledge of NDAS's network, what service would you recommend for the future to connect the remote offices to the hubs at Atlanta and New Orleans and the hubs to the corporate office in Tampa? Will the current facilities be adequate? 2. Preside
> Cookies Are Us runs a series of 100 cookie stores across the mid-western United States and central Canada. At the end of each day, the stores send sales and inventory data to headquarters, which uses the data to ship new inventory and plan marketing camp
> For this case, one may assume that there are LANs in four department offices (Data Processing, Accounts Payable, Information Services, and Agent Operations) and at Fleet Maintenance and Dispatch in the Secondary Building. What type of backbone network do
> Pat’s Engineering Works is a small company that specializes in complex engineering consulting projects. The projects typically involve one or two engineers who do data-intensive analyses for companies. Because so much data are needed, t
> Prepare a brief management summary on the technical essential aspects of the Internet and the World Wide Web and how they work. Remember, the audience is not technical. He is confused about the relationship between the World Wide Web and the Internet and
> Use the following information to compute the confidence interval for the population proportion. a) n = 715 and x = 329, with 95% confidence b) n = 284 and p^ = .71, with 90% confidence c) n = 1250 and p^ = .48, with 95% confidence d) n = 457 and x = 270,
> The following table displays round-trip flight prices from 14 major U.S. cities to Atlanta and Salt Lake City. a. Compute the mean price for a round-trip flight into Atlanta and the mean price for a round-trip flight into Salt Lake City. Is At
> Data collected by the Oil Price Information Service from more than 90,000 gasoline and convenience stores throughout the U.S. showed that the average price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline was $3.28 (MSN Auto website). The following data show the price
> Consider a sample with data values of 27, 25, 20, 15, 30, 34, 28, and 25. Compute the range, interquartile range, variance, and standard deviation.
> Consider a sample with data values of 10, 20, 12, 17, and 16. Compute the variance and standard deviation.
> Consider a sample with data values of 10, 20, 12, 17, and 16. Compute the range and interquartile range.
> The current value of a company is $25 million. If the value of the company six year ago was $10 million, what is the company’s mean annual growth rate over the past six years?
> If an asset declines in value from $5000 to $3500 over nine years, what is the mean annual growth rate in the asset’s value over these nine years?
> Suppose that at the beginning of Year 1 you invested $10,000 in the Stivers mutual fund and $5000 in the Trippi mutual fund. The value of each investment at the end of each subsequent year is provided in the table below. Which mutual fund performed bette
> Consider a sample with data values of 10, 20, 21, 17, 16, and 12. Compute the mean and median.
> Annual revenue for Corning Supplies grew by 5.5% in 2014, 1.1% in 2015, −3.5% in 2016, −1.1% in 2017, and 1.8% in 2018. What is the mean growth annual rate over this period?
> A production process is checked periodically by a quality control inspector. The inspector selects simple random samples of 30 finished products and computes the sample mean product weights x̅. If test results over a long period of time show that 5% of t
> Based on a survey of master’s programs in business administration, magazines such as U.S. News & World Report rank U.S. business schools. These types of rankings are based in part on surveys of business school deans and corporate re
> The following table shows the total return and the number of funds for four categories of mutual funds. a. Using the number of funds as weights, compute the weighted average total return for these mutual funds. b. Is there any difficulty associated wit
> The grade point average for college students is based on a weighted mean computation. For most colleges, the grades are given the following data values: A (4), B (3), C (2), D (1), and F (0). After 60 credit hours of course work, a student at State Unive
> Martinez Auto Supplies has retail stores located in eight cities in California. The price they charge for a particular product in each city varies because of differing competitive conditions. For instance, the price they charge for a case of a popular br
> The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics collects data on unemployment rates in each state. The data contained in the file UnemploymentRates show the unemployment rate for every state and the District of Columbia over two consecutive years. To compare unemplo
> In automobile mileage and gasoline-consumption testing, 13 automobiles were road tested for 300 miles in both city and highway driving conditions. The following data were recorded for miles-per-gallon performance. City: 16.2 16.7 15.9 14.4 13.2 15.3 16.8
> The creator of a new online multiplayer survival game has been tracking the monthly downloads of the newest game. The following table shows the monthly downloads (in thousands) for each month of the current and previous year. a. Compute the mean, media
> Nielsen tracks the amount of time that people spend consuming media content across different platforms (digital, audio, television) in the United States. Nielsen has found that traditional television viewing habits vary based on the age of the consumer a
> OutdoorGearLab is an organization that tests outdoor gear used for climbing, camping, mountaineering, and backpacking. Suppose that the following data show the ratings of hardshell jackets based on the breathability, durability, versatility, features, mo
> Consider a sample with data values of 10, 20, 12, 17, and 16. Compute the mean and median.
> A researcher reports survey results by stating that the standard error of the mean is 20. The population standard deviation is 500. a. How large was the sample used in this survey? b. What is the probability that the point estimate was within ±25 of the
> A random sample of 30 colleges from Kiplinger’s list of the best values in private college provided the data shown in the file BestPrivateColleges (Kiplinger website). The variable named Admit Rate (%) shows the percentage of students that applied to the
> The Russell 1000 is a stock market index consisting of the largest U.S. companies. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is based on 30 large companies. The file Russell gives the annual percentage returns for each of these stock indexes for the years 1988 to
> Over the past 40 years, the percentage of homes in the United States with smoke detectors has risen steadily and has plateaued at about 96% as of 2015 (National Fire Protection Association website). With this increase in the use of home smoke detectors,
> Department of transportation’s study on driving speed and miles per gallon for midsize automobiles resulted in the following data:
> The file StockComparison contains monthly adjusted stock prices for technology company Apple, Inc., and consumer-goods company Procter & Gamble (P&G) from 2013–2018. a. Develop a scatter diagram with Apple stock price on the horizontal axis and P&G stock
> Five observations taken for two variables follow. a. Develop a scatter diagram for these data. b. What does the scatter diagram indicate about a relationship between x and y? c. Compute and interpret the sample covariance. d. Compute and interpret the
> Five observations taken for two variables follow. a. Develop a scatter diagram with x on the horizontal axis. b. What does the scatter diagram developed in part (a) indicate about the relationship between the two variables? c. Compute and interpret the
> The Bureau of Transportation Statistics keeps track of all border crossings through ports of entry along the U.S.-Canadian and U.S.-Mexican borders. The data contained in the file BorderCrossings show the most recently published figures for the number of
> Fortune magazine’s list of the world’s most admired companies for 2014 is provided in the data contained in the file AdmiredCompanies (Fortune magazine website). The data in the column labeled “Return” shows the one-year total return (%) for the top rank