Ground floor: customer service and marketing department There are a total of 20 workstations. There are two network printers accessible from all workstations. The Internet is accessible from all workstations. Visitors should be able to access wireless internet, wifi. The most suitable network topology for the ground floor is the star topology. A star topology is one in which each workstation or computer peripheral is centrally connected through the use of a computer/hub or switch. This way, when one network connection goes down or is faulty, it doesn't affect the rest of the network. networked workstations. This is a great advantage in this type of network.Fig 1.0However, there are other network topologies that can be used such as bus, ring, hybrid and mesh topologies. They have their drawbacks that make them inefficient. For example in bus topology, when an outage occurs anywhere in the ring network, the entire network fails. Figure 1.0 represents a generic star topology with one broken connection. Even if the connection to that particular computer is interrupted, the network continues to function. Since this computer network is interconnected exclusively internally, it can be called a local network. At this point, the definition of hub is imperative. Quite simply, a hub is a small, inexpensive device that brings computers together. Most hubs today use the Ethernet standard and others use the USB standard. The hub represents layers one and two in the OSI model, also known as the Open Systems Interconnection reference model shown below. Fig 1.3 OSI Model To the network/co...... middle of paper ......cable from one of the computers and connecting it to the network router. This way the printers are connected to the LAN. To ensure that printing is not mixed up, workstations 1 through 10 use the first printer named Printer A, while the rest of the 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