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The Role of the Workgroup

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Network Design

This section examines some of the methods that may be used to divide the 
population mass of end users of a network into cohesive and defined 
workgroups. 

Organizing workgroups by geographical proximity creates workgroups made up 
of discrete sections of a facility, as shown in Figure 5-1. While in many cases the 
physical locations of departments may correspond exactly to a facility layout, the 
geographical proximity criteria of workgroup organization does not take function 
into account. As the deciding criteria for this type of workgroup organization is 
location only, geographical proximity is often the least efficient workgroup 
creation method in terms of performance, reliability, and troubleshooting.

Figure 5-1. Geographical Proximity Workgroups

Having well defined rules of geographical proximity as the deciding factor in 
workgroup design does, however, make the physical act of fault recovery easier in 
many networks. If an entire location is suffering errors or loss of network 
operation, there is a defined physical location to begin examining network 
devices for faults.

A1

A2

A3

A4

A5

A6

A7

A8

L1

: Sales Workstations

: Research Workstations

: Service Workstations

: Receiving Workstations

Workgroups