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Main LAN Designs
I have a question in my coursework which i don't understand, it says:
What are the main LAN designs (should be more than 2)? Compare the advantages and disadvantages of these LAN designs. Justify your choice.
I dont understand this, does anyone know an answer to this?
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01-03-2007, 21:32
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Re: Main LAN Designs
Look up Star and Ring networks, as well as P2P ones. This should help you out 
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01-03-2007, 21:34
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Re: Main LAN Designs
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Look up Star and Ring networks, as well as P2P ones. This should help you out |
P2P networks such as eDonkey and Gnutella, Kazaa, Morpheus, or something else?
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01-03-2007, 21:35
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Re: Main LAN Designs
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P2P networks such as eDonkey and Gnutella, Kazaa, Morpheus, or something else?
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That basic principle of them all connecting to one another, so if one link was to go down, you could still get to another Pc because everyone is connected to every other one 
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01-03-2007, 21:41
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Re: Main LAN Designs
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That basic principle of them all connecting to one another, so if one link was to go down, you could still get to another Pc because everyone is connected to every other one |
you are awesome, thank you!!!
i used this link to help me about regarding the bus, star thing, is this what it means?
http://www.theteacher99.btinternet.c...ule7/task2.htm
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01-03-2007, 21:45
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Re: Main LAN Designs
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Originally Posted by Zee
I have a question in my coursework which i don't understand, it says:
What are the main LAN designs (should be more than 2)? Compare the advantages and disadvantages of these LAN designs. Justify your choice.
I dont understand this, does anyone know an answer to this?
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Most modern networks are inter connected stars (according to the cisco book I read)
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01-03-2007, 21:47
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Re: Main LAN Designs
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Originally Posted by Druchii
Look up Star and Ring networks, as well as P2P ones. This should help you out |
Think you should drop p2p as OP mentioned LAN.
Yes p2p can be used in a LAN but think the right answer is to look at star / ring /token et al
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01-03-2007, 21:50
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Re: Main LAN Designs
Thank all of you so much!
i'd be stuck on that one question for hours if i didn't ask here, i have so many other questions to answer about LAN and all this bullcrap!
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01-03-2007, 21:51
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Re: Main LAN Designs
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Most modern networks are inter connected stars (according to the cisco book I read)
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Kind of... if you look at the topologies logically they look like
1. A Bus Network shaped physically like a star (down to the hardware)
or
2. As you say, interconnected Bus Networks, its a grey area.
to the OP, what course are you doing?
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01-03-2007, 21:53
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Re: Main LAN Designs
There is a follow up to the above question, it says
What transmission modes may need to be used within these networks?
what do they mean by transmission modes?
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01-03-2007, 21:54
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Re: Main LAN Designs
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Think you should drop p2p as OP mentioned LAN.
Yes p2p can be used in a LAN but think the right answer is to look at star / ring /token et al
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That's a very good point actually, and token was the other one i was thinking of but couldn't remember the name of
No problem Zee by the way, learnt this stuff last year in my ICT course.
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01-03-2007, 21:55
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Re: Main LAN Designs
lol why not copy and paste the rest of your homework and we'll do that too
It'll be Pub Trivia for these boys
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01-03-2007, 21:57
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Re: Main LAN Designs
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Originally Posted by Zee
There is a follow up to the above question, it says
What transmission modes may need to be used within these networks?
what do they mean by transmission modes?
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I would imagine it means
Simplex
Half Duplex
Full Duplex
is this for a BTEC ND?
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01-03-2007, 22:00
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Re: Main LAN Designs
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Originally Posted by CrC-3rr0r
lol why not copy and paste the rest of your homework and we'll do that too
It'll be Pub Trivia for these boys |
yeah, why not! lol
I answered 3 of the questions in task 1 already so i didn't post them, this is only Task 1:
· Describe major devices and methods used for electronic communication channels for LAN.
· What are the main LAN designs (should be more than 2)? Compare the advantages and disadvantages of these LAN designs. Justify your choice which may be suitable for the company.
· What transmission modes may need to be used within these networks?
· Describe how the new network will be implemented including: number of workstations, layout of the new network system. Use diagrams for illustration.
· Identify in your report
o a range of public and private wide area networks with examples of their uses,
o the main hardware elements required in wide area network
to allow the company connect to internet.
· Suggest software applications suitable to run on the network.
The above is all of task 1.
And to Zeph, its for Higher Education IT, its basicly a foundation IT course which allows you to get into UNI and continue Computer Science or Computing, or whatever, since i've not lived in this country all my life, i studied this course.
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01-03-2007, 22:03
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Re: Main LAN Designs
cool have you got the course textbook that we could use along with a pencil and paper ?
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