You are sitting at your desk at work, using your laptop computer. The boss calls an emergency meeting for you and several coworkers, and asks everyone to bring his or her laptop computer. When you get to the meeting room, the boss wants to download an important file from his laptop to all your coworkers’ laptops. List three possible media solutions that will support this download, along with their advantages and disadvantages.
1) Boss can email the file to all the coworkers
adv: less overhead for the boss.
disadv: limited size files can only be shared.
2) Boss can use a external drive such as USB to share data
adv: file size can be large.
disadv: time consuming.
3) Boss can use Windows network sharing and make those files
public to provide access to coworkers
adv: less time consuming.
disadv: requirement of high bandwidth to provide
simultaneous download.
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