Question

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Victoria Estate (VIC-RE) is interested in the growing tourism market and open an office to launch services for people who travel on holidays and cannot look after their properties (houses or units) while they are away. This new office currently has 7 employees whose PCs are linked by a small LAN. Each PC shares files and services (such as printing) to the others on the LAN. What type of network model is suitable to build a small LAN for this new office? Describe the advantage and disadvantage of this model.

Answer 1

peer-to-peer network model should be used in small office.

peer to peer network allow certain files and folders to be shared with everyone or with selected users. Peer-to-peer networks are quite common in small offices that do not use a dedicated file server,we can directly share file between computers without using any external server.

Advantages

• Easy file sharing:

• Reduced costs:  no need of srever

• Adaptability:  easy to extend to the new client

• Reliability: Unlike a client-server network, which can fail if the central server malfunctions, a P2P network will likely remain functional even if the central server crashes.

• High performance: While a client-server network performs less effectively when more clients join the network, a P2P network can improve its performance when more clients join it. This is due to the fact that each client in a P2P network is also a server that contributes resources to the network.

• Efficiency: Emerging P2P networks enable collaboration between devices that have different resources that can benefit the whole network.