Dirt Bikes

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The company Dirt Bikes is facing the same current dilemma that many companies these days face. Trying to continue to make a profit in this economy and stay competitive and up to date with technology and its ever-changing advancements is no easy task these days. Dirt Bikes has concerns over their current costs of communications between their employees and departments, they are looking to advance their ability to keep up with the developments in the motorcycle industry and the global economy surrounding their organization. There are many considerations their organization must consider when implementing an entire new technology infrastructure. They must consider the overall costs, how the entire infrastructure will affect their organization as well as their employees. They must consider the time and effort it will take to train all their employees on the new technology, including the costs of that training, as well.
Some of technology they will need to decide on will be whether to install a server computer, which is a computer on a network that performs important network functions for client computers, such as serving up Web pages, storing data, and storing the network operating system (and hence controlling the network). Server software such as Microsoft Windows Server, Linux, and Novell Open Enterprise Server are the most widely used network operating systems. As well the network operating system (NOS) routes, manages communications on the network, and coordinates network resources. It can reside on every computer in the network, or it can reside primarily on a dedicated server computer for all the applications on the network. In considering how their workers will communicate with each other in...

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... access to what and in which sequence. The router connects the LAN to other networks, which could be the Internet or another corporate network so that the LAN can exchange information with networks external to it. The most common LAN operating systems are Windows, Linux, and Novell. Each of these network operating systems supports TCP/IP as their default networking protocol. Ethernet is the dominant LAN standard at the physical network level, specifying the physical medium to carry signals between computers, access control rules, and a standardized set of bits used to carry data over the system. Originally, Ethernet supported a data transfer rate of 10 megabits per second (Mbps). Newer versions, such as Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet, support data transfer rates of 100 Mbps and 1 gigabits per second (Gbps), respectively, and are used in network backbones.

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