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Barrett & Barrett Advertising NJ is the newly established satellite office of Barrett & Barrett Advertising CA. Due to their increasing number of East Coast clientele, they have opened a satellite office to accommodate that business. B & B Advertising currently employs 56 people, 5 of which will transfer to the NJ office upon final renovations. Although a small outfit by number, gross sales for fiscal year 1998 exceeded $18,000,000.00. B & B CA's current computer usage is significantly high. Their need for efficient graphic capability requires them to maintain state of the art software and hardware. However B & B has stressed that user friendliness is a higher priority. B & B NJ poses the need for a small-scale local area network, to be tied into its parent company in California. The California office already has a LAN in place and operational. Their principal need for the LAN in NJ will be to transfer ad proposals to the California office and back via electronic mail. As requested by B & B, new equipment will be purchased for the NJ satellite office. In the probable event that B & B's clientele increases, all equipment will be relocated and reused, with minimal loss (i.e. cabling costs). Located on the third floor of 1113 Industry Way, its architecture presented ease for a networking situation. The office space is one floor with the dimensions of the 28 feet in width and 50 feet in length. The suite is divided into four offices (12 feet 6 inches by 15 feet 6 inches), a conference room (15 feet by 10 feet 6 inches), a LAN room (12 feet 6 inches), and a common area. All of these sub-divisions contain drop ceilings 12 feet high, which will create ease of laying network cables, as ...