Question

CASE STUDY BASED QUESTION

Ayurveda Training Educational Institute is setting up its centre in Hyderabad with four specialised departments for Orthopedics, Neurology and Pediatrics along with an administrative office in separate buildings. The physical distance between these department buildings and the number of computers to be installed in these departments and administrative office are given as follows.

Shortest distance between various locations in meters:

Administrative Office to Orthopedics Unit	55
Neurology Unit to Administrative Office	30
Orthopedics Units to Neurology Unit	70
Pediatrics Unit to Neurology Unit	50
Pediatrics Unit to Administrative Office	40
Pediatrics Unit to Orthopedics Unit	110

Number of Computers installed at various locations are as follows

Pediatrics Unit	40
Administrative Office	140
Neurology	50
Orthopedics Unit	80

1) Suggest the most suitable location to install the main server of this institution to get efficient connectivity.

2) Suggest the best cable layout for effective network connectivity of the building having server with all the other buildings.

3) Suggest the devices to be installed in each of these building for connecting computers installed within the building out of the following

• Gateway
• Modem
• Switch

4) Suggest the topology of the network and network cable for efficiently connecting each computer installed in each of the building out of the following:

Topologies: Bus Topology, Star Topology

Network Cable: Single Pair Telephone Cable, Coaxial Cable, Ethernet Cable

Answer 1

1) Administrative office as this department contains the maximum number of computers thus decreasing the cabling cost for most of the computers as well as increasing the efficiency of the maximum computers in the network

2)

3) Switch: Switch would be needed in each of these buildings to interconnect the computers
installed within the building.

4) Topologies: Star Topology

Network Cable: Coaxial Cable