Homework Assignment 1: The building on the Indiana University Bloomington Campus known as “Lindley

In the Network Design Paper I will explain how the University has recently leased a building in Adelphi, Maryland. The measurements of the University is 240 feet long, 95 feet wide and 30 feet tall and broken down to two different floors. This University will be used for education purposes of course, the facility will be made of six instructional labs, seven offices, library, five classrooms, a student lobby and a computer lab. There will be a server room on each floor. The purpose of this paper is to explain the design of the networks in this building. The student accessed computers will be set up on a separate network than the network that they staff will be using.

Describe the data communication types used historically and the developments that have led to modern day Local Area Networks (LANs). Detail any emerging technologies and where you think data communications are likely to be in ten years’ time.

When setting up a LAN the architecture that you decide to choose is important. There are several factors that are decided when choosing said architecture, some of these being network speeds, types of cables, and access control mechanisms like collision detection (Team, 2011). The most common on in today’s LANs is Ethernet. These can be either wireless, wired, or a hybrid of both.

ASCII is coding system for letters and numbers. Each character has its own number for example the ASCII code for A is 097, A In binary is 01100001 we can work out the ASCII code by using its binary number

Ethernet is typically the technology that is used to allow computers locally to communicate with one another. Computers that are close to each other they are connected by Ethernet.

Coaxial cable uses a single conductor in the middle of a cable and the central conductor is surrounded by an insulator which is called the dielectric. Coax cables have become obsolete. Unshielded twisted pair cabling, also known as UTP cabling, has become the most common used network cabling. UTP cabling consists of four twisted pairs of wire, which have a different number of twists per foot, all encased on one sheath. This cabling is graded by different categories. Category 5 is recommended for Ethernet speeds of 100 Mbps. Category 5e, for running gigabit Ethernet or 1000BaseT networks. Category 6 and Category 6a are used to give better performance at higher speeds. Fiber optic cable is wave guided or light guided because it guides the light waves along the length of the cable. Single mode fiber optic cable can operate over long distances. Because fiber allows one mode of light to propagate, light pulses put on the fiber keep their shape much longer. This allows the light pulses to travel much further without interfering with other

Character Data is how users translate words and phrases into a language computers understand and communicate back to said users in a universal presentation. Character data is made up of two things, characters and strings. First, alphabetic letters, numbers, and symbols are setup and defined in a specific way that the CPU can understand. All twenty six letters of the English alphabet are used, but only in an uppercase presentation. Basic numbers ranging from zero to nine are defined and used. From using just these ten numbers, we can create any other number the system may need to represent. These letters, numbers, and symbols individually are called characters. Any grouping of characters is called a string.

A bit is a single number or a single value which can be either 0 or 1 and this value is represent the digital information. A byte is a sequence of bits; like a sequence of digital information, usually eight bits equals to one byte.

This created physical connection between PC’s and the network line. Connected data’s are transporting data’s through the network. Cable is a medium through which information usually moves to one network to another network.

This assignment will be mainly about network components and how do they operate, what are their functions and what are their flaws.

I agree with the students who want to change the name of the Forrest Hall Building on MTSU campus, because I think our students have the responsibility as those with the power to change this name since we don’t want to our state university to represent something hateful. When MTSU built its ROTC building in 1954, President Smith named it Forrest Hall in honor of Nathan Bedford Forrest’s reputation as an “interpid confederate cavalry leader who won fame with his brilliant raids. Maybe that was Forrest’s reputation in 1954, but in 2015 Forrest’s reputation becomes one of hate, racism, and violence. We do not want or need that at MTSU.

* Alphanumeric codes are important in computerized systems, as they help to ensure uniformity and consistency.

Bit- The smallest unit of data stored in a computing device, representing a single binary digit of value 0 or 1.

1. Drawings showing a map of cable runs and placement of wiring rooms for networking devices

In the earlier stages of networking i.e, In lan, the initial physical locations of where the computers had to be positioned had to remain fixed throughout for further usage. Any changes in setting up of the host in a different location after the initial setup would lead to excess expenditure where new sets of cables had to be installed to establish a new connection. This lead to an increase in the cost of maintenance and the investment that was required to maintain a larger network which had a probability of growing day by day.