Selecting Microcomputer Network Configurations [microform] : A Model for Technological Endurance / Marshall Drummond and Others
- Bib ID:
- 5454174
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Drummond, Marshall
- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1985
- 23 p.
- Summary:
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A model approach is suggested for the selection of a microcomputer network that will identify specific needs and arrive at solutions with maximum flexibility to avoid technological obsolescence. Chapter 1 specifies functional needs for a network design. This chapter discusses the process of evaluating whether a network is appropriate; examines and specifies functional requirements; discusses physical, software, and procedural issues; and offers suggestions for projecting future needs. Chapter 2 addresses the methods of prioritizing and weighing functional needs, looking at why it is important to specify needs and allocate relative weights to those needs; and to identify trade-offs in such a way as to minimize potential network conflicts. Chapter 3 discusses basic alternative directions by explaining major Local Area Network (LAN) technical issues, i.e., network typologies; network access protocol; bandwidth; and transmission media; and summarizing the technological advantages of the issues presented, as well as current and future directions in network design; alternatives to universal design; and steps to a solution. Chapter 4 describes the final selection process, including a summary of the needs matrix and a discussion of case study selection. (HB)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual National Convention of the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges (65th, San Diego, CA, April 14-17, 1985).
- Practitioners.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
- Available From:
- ERIC
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- Publication date:
- 1985
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