Canyon College began strictly as a liberal arts college, but for the past five years it has begun developing programs for business and professional students, including outreach programs to new areas within the same region. The college hires you to provide help with emerging WAN needs as it is developing these new programs.

#1:

Canyon College plans to offer night classes for business school students, paralegal students, and nurses, in five remote cities. Its plan is to have professors offer the classes from the main site and to use video conferencing and multimedia options at the remote sites. The main site has a TCP/IP Ethernet network. The remote sites, which are not yet set up, will also have TCP/IP Ethernet networks. The Canyon College director of information technology is asking you to provide a rationale for the options you recommend.

#2:

The Canyon College president enjoys participating in several classes once a week as a guest lecturer, but she wants to do this from home, so she can spend more time with her family instead of driving back to the college, which is about two miles away. Explain how the college president might be connected to the main college network through a particular WAN technology, and why you recommend that technology. One of the requirements is that she needs to be able to use the telephone in her home office at the same time that she is connected to the main college network.