The Marine Explorer is a new four-deck ship to be used by marine biologists for studying fish
Question:
The Marine Explorer is a new four-deck ship to be used by marine biologists for studying fish and plant life in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship is to be equipped with both cable and wireless network access on all decks. Several work areas of the ship have stationary desktop computers, printers, and large-format printers that will be connected by cable. The top two decks will each have 15 desktops, two laser printers, and a large-format printer. The lower decks will have about 10 desktops each. Also, many of the ship’s scientists and technicians will use laptop computers, moving them to several different work locations on the ship. Windows 7, Linux, and Mac OS X Lion workstations will be used. The ship will have five servers for research and administrative use that will be housed in a server room on the top deck. You are retained through Network Design Consultants to work on the design of the network.
Case Project 10.1: Cable Installation Preparations You are currently developing plans for cable installation and to hire a professional cable installation company. As you contact different cable installation companies, what types of issues do you discuss with them?
Case Project 10.2: Vertical Cabling The ship will be filled with scientific devices on the top two decks. The bottom deck houses the engine room. How would you connect networks on each deck considering these factors?
Managing Supply Chain and Operations An Integrative Approach
ISBN: 978-0132832403
1st edition
Authors: Thomas Foster, Scott E. Sampson, Cynthia Wallin, Scott W Webb