II. Pat’s Petunias You have been called in as a network consultant by your cousin Pat who operates a successful mail-order flower business. She is moving to a new office and wants to install a network for her telephone operators, who take phone calls and enter orders into the system. The number of operators working varies depending on the time of day and day of the week. On slow shifts, there are usually only 10 operators, whereas at peak times, there are 50. She has bids from different companies to install (1) Wi-Fi, or (2) a switched Ethernet 100Base-T network.
She wants you to give her some sense of the relative performance of the alternatives so the can compare that with their different costs. What would you recommend?