Chapter 10

CASE STUDY

1. What lessons do you draw from the repeated false starts of the CIBER team?

1. they should have evaluated the requirements for streamed video more carefully.
2. Streamed video requires high-speed LAN with enough bandwidth to transmit the video without interruptions.
3. They should have thought about scalability. It would have been more difficult to achieve an web site with the earlier phases.

2) How could the process have been managed better?

1. More planning in the early stages of design before implementing the network systems
2. Getting the facts together
3. The R&R Hal of Fame could have contracted another company.
4. Know about limitation of different media, topologies, etc

3) Comment on the final configuration. Can you suggest radically different configurations? If so, compare with the actual.

It is an improvement from the previous phases. The Mac Quadras could use more memory. They could use IBM compatibles and reduce any conflict in terms of software protocols (apple talk or TCP/IP). Outsourcing the back end part to an ISP could have been an viable solution. They also could have gone with a 2-tier environment on a intranet implementation of a network.