Question

1. Pat’s Petunias : You have been called in as a network consultant by your cousin Pat, who operates a successful mail-order flower 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. The number of operators working varies depending on the time of day and day of the week. On slow shifts, 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? Use the format below to begin working on the report.

Answer 1

I would recommend that my cousin Pat install a switched Ethernet 100Base-T network. The reason why is that although WiFi would be cheaper to implement, with WiFi network would severely bog down with so many devices (phones and computers) connected to the network. Also, the phone operators will be taking orders and talking to the customer at the same time. It is important to have a reliable and stable internet connection to avoid problems when taking the customers’ orders. This being the case, a switched Ethernet 100Base-T network will work better for my cousin pat