Case Studies

Complete the following exercises for the case study companies. You may wish to refer back to Chapter 4, “Pre-Design Procedures,” to review the complete overview of Have-A-Seat and Willow Creek School District. Once you have completed these exercises, you may compare your solutions with those in the back of the book. Realize that even though your answers may differ from those, that does not necessarily mean one is right and the other is wrong.

Have-A-Seat

1. Dave will be installing both routers and switches in his network. Which of the ISO network management areas do you think he needs to be most concerned with? Which products would you recommend for each of these areas?

MPS Construction

There are no case studies for MPS Construction in this chapter.

Willow Creek School District

1. Scott needs to manage his network from the District Office. He wants to manage all devices across his network, including non-Cisco devices. What advice would you offer him concerning his network management requirements?

2. Which network management products would you recommend for Scott?

3. Scott is aware that technology in education is changing rapidly and is concerned about his bandwidth requirements and network responsiveness when technologies such as video, audio, and multimedia are introduced into the classroom. What recommendations would you have for him in analyzing these changing requirements?