You are responsible for planning the cabling infrastructure for a medical instrument manufacturing company's new centralized warehouse. The new warehouse, the firm's fourth, will be situated within a square mile of the current headquarters. The buildings are now linked through individual networks, but the business would benefit from having the ability to exchange information across the buildings. Consider the case of the Quality Assurance group in Building 1 requiring entry to the Research Group's server room in the adjacent Building 2. The Sales Division's Building 3 office also plans to employ online video to provide training for sales representatives in the field. At the warehouse next door, fifty members of the Fulfillment Department's shipping and packaging crew may often be seen using forklifts to pull inventory off the shelves. For the medical equipment firm, which kind of transmission medium would you recommend, and why, for each building and department? In your opinion, what sort of media should be utilized to connect the structures, and why? As a last question, what should the company ask its ISP for in order to connect its WAN to the Internet?

You are responsible for planning the cabling infrastructure for a medical instrument manufacturing company's new centralized warehouse. The new warehouse, the firm's fourth, will be situated within a square mile of the current headquarters. The buildings are now linked through individual networks, but the business would benefit from having the ability to exchange information across the buildings. Consider the case of the Quality Assurance group in Building 1 requiring entry to the Research Group's server room in the adjacent Building 2. The Sales Division's Building 3 office also plans to employ online video to provide training for sales representatives in the field. At the warehouse next door, fifty members of the Fulfillment Department's shipping and packaging crew may often be seen using forklifts to pull inventory off the shelves. For the medical equipment firm, which kind of transmission medium would you recommend, and why, for each building and department? In your opinion, what sort of media should be utilized to connect the structures, and why? As a last question, what should the company ask its ISP for in order to connect its WAN to the Internet?