NTC362 Week 3OSI Model, Switching Systems, Network Channel Pr.docx
- 1. NTC/362 Week 3 OSI Model, Switching Systems, Network Channel Processors, and Media 1 Write a 200- to 300-word response to the following: Supporting Activities: Introduction to Network Channels, Processors, and Media •What are the advantages and disadvantages of network processors, such as hubs, switches, routers, and gateways? •What are the three main types of network media? •What is their performance in terms of reliability, speed capabilities, and nominal distance for reliable spans? 2 Write a 200- to 300-word response to the following Supporting Activity: Introduction to Circuit Switching • •What are the basic concepts of circuit switching? •What are the advantages and disadvantages of circuit switching? 3 Write a 200- to 300-word response to the following: Supporting Activity: Introduction to Packet Switching •What is a packet? What is packet switching? •How would you explain the concept of packet switching? •What are the advantages and disadvantages of packet switching over circuit switching? 4Write a 200- to 300-word response to the following: NTC/362 Week 3 OSI Model, Switching Systems, Network Channel Processors, and Media
- 2. 1 Write a 200 - to 300 - word response to the following: Supporting Activities: Introduction to Network Channels, Processors, and Media • What are the advantages and disadvantages o f network processors, such as hubs, switches, routers, and gateways? •What are the three main types of network media? •What is their performance in terms of reliability, speed capabilities, and nominal distance for reliable spans? 2 Write a 200 - to 300
- 3. - word response to the following Supporting Activity: Introduction to Circuit Switching • •What are the basic concepts of circuit switching? •What are the advantages and disadvantages of circuit switching? 3 Write a 200 - to 300 - word response to the following: Supporting Activity: Introduction to Packet Switching •What is a packet? What is packet switching? •How would you explain the concept of pa cket switching? •What are the advantages and disadvantages of packet switching over circuit switching?
- 4. 4 Write a 200 - to 300 - word response to the f ollowing: NTC/362 Week 3 OSI Model, Switching Systems, Network Channel Processors, and Media 1 Write a 200- to 300-word response to the following: Supporting Activities: Introduction to Network Channels, Processors, and Media •What are the advantages and disadvantages of network processors, such as hubs, switches, routers, and gateways? •What are the three main types of network media? •What is their performance in terms of reliability, speed capabilities, and nominal distance for reliable spans? 2 Write a 200- to 300-word response to the following Supporting Activity: Introduction to Circuit Switching • •What are the basic concepts of circuit switching? •What are the advantages and disadvantages of circuit switching? 3 Write a 200- to 300-word response to the following: Supporting Activity: Introduction to Packet Switching •What is a packet? What is packet switching?
- 5. •How would you explain the concept of packet switching? •What are the advantages and disadvantages of packet switching over circuit switching? 4 Write a 200- to 300-word response to the following: 5/13/2013 Clark Page 1 of 3 Technology Plan: Real Estate Agency Business Description Ace Real Estate Agency is a Real Estate Agency located in Kodiak, Alaska where houses go unnoticed and unsold for long periods of time. We think with our different approach to customers, people will be more interested in the homes we put for sale. With being a fishing community, fishermen bring home a lot of money at one time, looking for houses to put a down payment on; Kodiak is also a high traffic area for the United States Coast Guard, who as well like owning homes, therefore our target market is residents from age 20 and up. With the size of Kodiak being roughly 14,000 people, not too much staff is needed to manage this island that’s
- 6. why our size of our business will be roughly 9-19 employees which should be more than enough. The way we plan on gaining customers selling more homes than everyone else is our highly technology savvy operations enabling the customers to do mostly everything online and on their own, by the time they walk through the house, they will know everything. Strategy Social media and e-commerce is very important to our success in Ace Real Estate Company. We are all about Micro-Blogging; it is basically free marketing and customer service for us. Micro-blogging also enables us to satisfy the needs of a lot of people at the same time because the same question a customer asks online, another customer is thinking about. In addition to Micro-blogging, we will have a very user friendly website, with the intentions to highly educate our customers on the home with 3-d tours, detailed information, pros and cons, and other homes in the same category. B2C e-commerce would be our preferred way of
- 7. communication to our customers, with sites like Facebook, Twitter, Radio Ads, and newspaper ads. This will give me a huge competitive advantage because the other four Real Estate Agencies do not use social media as a booster. Data Processing Needs The two applications that I compared were most compatible for our Customer Relationship Management. These types of applications are meant for Real Estate companies because being a two-sided market, we as a company need to keep good track of our customers. Also making sure that we have great customer service for the customers, making them want to come and tell others; the more B2C we have, the more revenue we can gain. There are quite a few benefits of using B2C e-commerce is that we can reach worldwide market with unlimited volume of customers. We can display information, pictures, and prices of products or services without spending a lot of money on colorful paper advertisements. Last, but not least, E2C can
- 8. operate and be successful on little, or even no overhead costs, which is cost efficient. 5/13/2013 Clark Page 2 of 3 Through micro-blogging we will gain a large diverse customer base because. The benefits of using this in a Real Estate setting is that no other companies use micro-blogging as a tool because of its short character count of about 140 characters, but I feel like we can capitalize on this by giving a “seeding” effect. With a picture and a few highlights of the house, this will bait the customer into clicking on the link to our main webpage, where they can view 3-D tours and all. With all of this being stated, I would choose to use Microsoft Dynamic CRM because of its capabilities that SalesForce doesn’t have. For instance, Microsoft Dynamic CRM is meant for 10 or more users at about $21 less per person which both are satisfying our needs. Also Microsoft Dynamic CRM has the offline capabilities that follow
- 9. my business direction, unlike Salesforce, not to mention that doesn’t have territory management like most Real Estate Agencies suggested to have as a feature. Software Requirements Microsoft Dynamic CRM Salesforce CRM Application Online Yes Yes Accommodate for 10 or More Users Yes No Components of Software Available on Mobile Device Yes Yes "Offline" Capabilities Yes No Manage Sales Opportunities No No Marketing Campaigns & Activities Yes No Trouble or Service Tickets/Cases Yes Yes Reporting & Business Analysis Yes Yes Price is Below $45 Per Person Yes No Two processes that would be streamlined through the use the system Microsoft Dynamic CRM would be the process of offline data access and instant messaging capabilities. We need these two things to maintain our business model for availability and
- 10. great service. Process 1: The offline data access is a huge process needed in our business plan. We plan on being very mobile and available for customers. This also is a great help to the iPad app, enabling out agents to take iPads out to customers where ever they are and show them the detailed numbers. Process 2: Instant messaging process on the software enables co-workers communicate all within one program, but this feature is most helpful on the B2C side, because customers can instant message Agents through our link on our webpage, with faster responses and also freeing up phone lines for customers without access to the internet. 5/13/2013 Clark Page 3 of 3 Operating Environment
- 11. For the software I chose, Microsoft Dynamic CRM, there are a couple system requirements. The software system requirements are Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional SP3, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition SP3, or Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. Other system requirements are Processor (32-bit): Multi-core 1.8-GHz CPU or higher, Processor (64-bit): Multi-core x64 architecture 2GHz CPU or higher such as AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon systems, Memory of 1 GB RAM, Hard disk: 400MB of available hard disk space, and a Display of Super VGA with a resolution higher than 1024 x 768. With the information I know right now, I will be purchasing a Windows based desktop for my company, along with Apple iPads to use as mobile devices. These devices will need internet capabilities for the initial process, but the offline feature enables us to not always need connection.