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Network Design
5-4
The Role of the Workgroup
Departmental Organization
Corporations, companies, and agencies all separate employees by primary 
function. No one person “does it all,” and most employees are specialists in the 
sense that they perform one function or a series of functions that are assigned to 
them by their job descriptions. These functions dictate what types of information 
and network usage they require: manufacturing personnel deal primarily with 
manufacturing information; accounting personnel deal primarily with sales, 
profit, and expenditure information; and research personnel primarily perform 
design and testing operations.
Since most of the time business departments are involved with sharing 
information among other members of their department or a group of related 
departments (Accounting, Personnel, and Payroll, for example), the division of 
the end user population into workgroups based on corporate function and 
separated by bridges, switches, or routers tends to improve network performance 
by keeping information passed within each department from impacting the flow 
of information within other departments. This provides natural divisions within 
the network, as shown in Figure 5-2, for the use of bridging or routing, keeping 
local traffic from congesting the network where it is used by other departments.
Figure 5-2. Corporate Organization Workgroups
: Sales Workstations
: Research Workstations
: Receiving Workstations
: Workgroup A
: Workgroup B
: Workgroup C