Western Trucking operates a large fleet of trucks that deliver shipments for com

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Western Trucking operates a large fleet of trucks that deliver shipments for commercial shippers such as food stores, retailers, and wholesalers. Their main headquarters building and secondary building are shown in Figure 8-10. They want to upgrade to a faster network. Design a new network for them, including the specific backbone and LAN technologies to be used. Assume that the main office building is 170 feet by 100 feet in size and that the secondary building is 100 feet by 50 feet. The two buildings are 100 feet apart.

Explanation / Answer

I would install a collapsed backbone network using a star topology with a Gigabit Ethernet

switch at the center. This backbone would support a series of LAN’s (as needed). In this new

architecture, all circuits, routers, and bridges are replaced by one switch.

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