Peggy Mancuso <peg@necis.nec.com> (06/21/91)
Hello, I am a candidate for a graduate degree from Lesley College in Management. Part of the requirement for degree is completion of a research project. I would like to ask you to complete the following questionnaire on local area networks. As a novice to LANs, this is a basic study on how LANs are currently being used in business. Please email to peg@necis.nec.com. Thank you for your time. There are just ten questions. 1. How many different types of local area networks are utilized by your organization. (One, Two, Three, More than Three) 2. Approximately how many users are connected to each local area network? Lan 1 ___ Lan 2 ___ (if applicable) Lan 3 ___ ( if applicable) 3. Which topology best describes your organization's local area network? If more than one lan , please list additional topologies. (Bus, Tree, Ring, Star, Other please describe, Unknown) Lan 1 ____ Lan 2 ____ Lan 3 ____ 4. Which medium connects the components of the network? If more than one Lan, please list additional media. (Twisted pair, Thin ethernet, Ethernet coax, token ring coax, fiber, Other) Lan 1 ___ Lan 2 ___ Lan 3 ___ 5. Which access control is used. (Token bus, Token ring, CSMA, CSMA/CD Other, please describe, Unknown) Lan 1 ____ Lan 2 ____ Lan 3 ____ 6. What is the primary business the Lan is being utilized for? Administrative Support (including wordprocessing, mail, resource sharing) or online (medical etc.) Lan 1 ___ Lan 2 ___ Lan 3 ___ 7. Would the interruption of the Lan service (eg power outage) immediately effect the health or safety of the primary business operation for which the network is being used? Yes No Lan 1 ___ Lan 2 ___ Lan 3 ___ 8. Is an immediate response (60 seconds or less) to and from the file server critcal to business operation. (eg. Immediate response is required to and from automatic banking machines.) YES or NO Lan 1 ____ Lan 2 ____ Lan 3 ____ 9. Is security of data to and from the server critical to the business operation? (eg. In automatic banking applications, unauthorized users must be restricted from the network) Yes No Lan 1 ___ Lan 2 ___ Lan 3 ___ 10. Is reliabiltiy of data to and from the server critical to business operation? (eg. In banking applications data must be 100% accurate) Yes No Lan 1 ___ Lan 2 ___ Lan 3 ___ Thank you very much for your time. Results will be posted if interest.
dblyth@lll-winken.llnl.gov (06/25/91)
Please summarize your replies to the net as it is likely to be of interest to several people, in addition to us market researchers (sorry -- most market researchers *are* people! :-)) who are always interested in any market insight (sometimes we are interested even when the sample and questioning technique are invalid and misleading! :-). Dennis (a marketeer and researcher) Dennis Blyth, Manager, Marketing Research, NCR Europe Group "NCR/AT&T is THE Dennis.Blyth@daytonOH.NCR.COM RIGHT CHOICE for open, cooperative computing" 1700 South Patterson Blvd. WHQ-2 Dayton, Ohio 45479 Fax: 1-513-445-6078 Phone: 1-513-445-6580