Ground floor: customer service and marketingThere are a total of 20 workstations. There are two network printers accessible by all workstations. The Internet is accessible to all workstations. Visitors must be able to access wireless internet access, wifi. The network topology best suited to the ground floor is the star topology. A star topology is one in which each workstation or computing device is centrally connected using a computer/hub or switch. This way, when one network connection does not work or is faulty, it does not affect the rest of the network. workstations in the network. This is a big advantage in this type of network. Fig 1.0 However, there are other network topologies that can be used such as bus, ring, hybrid and mesh topologies. They have their own drawbacks that make them ineffective. For example, in the bus topology, when there is an outage at any point in the ring network, the entire network goes down. Figure 1.0 shows a generic star topology with one broken connection. Although the connection to this particular computer is interrupted, the network is still working. Since this computer network is interconnected exclusively within itself, it can be called a local network. At this point, defining a hub is imperative. Quite simply, a hub is a small, inexpensive device that connects computers together. Most hubs today use the Ethernet standard and others the USB standard. The Hub represents layers one and two of the OSI model, also known as the Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model seen below. Fig 1.3 OSIVers network/co model...... middle of paper ...... cable from either computer and connect them to the network router. By doing this, the printers are connected to the local network. To ensure that printouts are not mixed up, workstations 1 through 10 use the first printer called Printer A and the remaining workstations use Printer B. References. http://compnetworking.about.com/od/ethernet/f/what-is-an-ethernet-cable.htm http://compnetworking.about.com/od/networkprotocols/ http://compnetworking.about.com /od/networkdesign/ig/Computer-Network-Topologies/ compnetworking.about.com/od/speedtests/a/network-speed.htm http://compnetworking.about.com/od/ethernet/g/cat5-cables. htm http://www.amazon.com/Netgear-EN524-24-Port-Ethernet-Hub/dp/B00004Z8AI http://compnetworking.about.com/od/hardwarenetworkgear/a/how-to-network-a- printer.htm http://www.amazon.com/Dynex-DX-E402-4-Port-Ethernet-Broadband/dp/B0013BI7JQ