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Your work at Thrift Towne was so successful that you are asked to provide networ

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Question

Your work at Thrift Towne was so successful that you are asked to provide networking advice to a chain of ice cream stores called Scoops. Scoops already has a server-based network. The server
that holds the company%u2019s inventory, ordering, sales, time tracking, and employee information and provides an Internet connection is located at their store across the street from Thrift Towne. Three other Scoops stores in town connect to the central server
through high-speed Internet connections. Scoops is having problems with heavy traffic and slow server response at 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. each day. They don%u2019t exactly know where the traffic originates or what type of traffic it is. They also don%u2019t know whether
the two heavy traffic times every day warrant a change in their connection methods. Using what kind of network services will help them assess their traffic situation and provide answers about possible network expansion? What types of things can they find out?
What other kinds of services might they also use, given their network configuration?

Explanation / Answer

The 3 Scoops stores should have their own high speed internet connections while still retaining the network connections to the server for file sharing. They should request to Internet Service Provider to provide bandwidth usage monitoring to access the traffic.