Connectivity options at Fenwick and West
This assignment is a mini case study in connectivity options.
Read the article on connectivity options considered by Fenwick and West.
Answer the following questions using your own words. Write your answers carefully, as in a report to your boss, not like quick replies to an assignment you are trying to get checked off.
- Is this article about the Internet, an extranet or an intranet? (Why)?
- What was the problem facing Fenwick & West?
- What did Fenwick & West decide to do?
- What was the alternative they did not take?
- What were the advantages of their solution over the alternative?
- It sounds like Yipes technology is quite a bit better than the phone company alternative. What would you have done to respond to this threat if you were a telephone company CEO?
- What happened to Yipes?