Abstract This paper describes the design of a basic local area network that would be useful in a wide variety of businesses and possibly educational settings for a cost of approximately $200,000. This system is designed both to meet current needs of a business that wishes to run efficiently and to be able to interact with other businesses also running at acceptably high efficiency levels for a company with high-tech aspirations. In order to work, the system needs to show flexibility in order to expand with growing business needs and volume for at least several years before any new substantial investment is made in hardware or new software. In order to demonstrate the feasibility, the author gives us an overview, definition and background about a basic local area network. The feasibility of the network's success is analysed, and its potential for successful integration into an actual business is evaluated.
From the Paper "However, at the same time, no network designer should make the mistake of providing too few of a number of peripherals like printers because doing so limits the efficiency of workers and tends to produce a great deal of frustration in the office. Workers sitting around waiting to print out a needed job are not only workers being paid not to work, but they are also workers being paid to be frustrated, which is most certainly not the ideal situation in any way. Perhaps a good standard rule for the network designer would be to estimate the number of peripherals needed and then for every 20-25 people who will be using the network to add one peripheral. The added cost in initial equipment expenditure will be paid back by the fact that workers will be able to be more efficient. This will also allow for workers to continue to be productive when a device breaks down (as of course will happen) because there will be other machines within the network already linked to provide those needed services (Derfler 68)."
Abstract The paper looks at the emotional trauma, the practical, every-day impact and the psychological issues which emerged when soldiers were called away from their families to fight the war against terror. The paper discusses how, while they seem to handle the situation better than their families, military men and women still have to deal with the terrific strain that any deployment places upon family life.
From the Paper "To begin with, American soldiers are, first and foremost, Americans. As a result, they too must surely have felt the shock, confusion and pain that all other Americans felt throughout the morning, afternoon, and evening of September 11, 2001. However, whereas most other Americans were largely powerless to do anything about the attacks (save become more hyper-vigilant on the home front in "rooting out" possible terrorists and/or saboteurs), members of the United States Army, Air Force and Navy were uniquely equipped to take positive action. In fact, whatever reservations many of them may have had in leaving behind their loved ones, the available evidence seems to indicate that military morale was quite strong after 9/11: Amy Puckett for one writes in the Army Times that ex-soldiers began to beat a steady path to their local enlistment office in the hopes of securing a military position as the Afghanistan stage of the "War on Terror" got underway (2001)."
Tags: war, terror, soldiers, overseas, deployment, tension, communciation
