UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA
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PEER-TO-PEER
A group of computers(connected together) there is no central centers -users must remember about which computer have shared resources or information that they want to access
CLIENT/SERVER
*Each computer that access to internet known as a client computer
*The shared data transmitted in one direction only
*The level of access that users have to shared resources was controlled
*The central center is the server
NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
The network architecture is referred to the framework of the computer, devices, and media.
The network architecture also know as a design of the complete computer communication network, which provides a framework and technology foundation for designing, building and managing a communication network
It can be divided into two, as below:
WIDE AREA NETWORK (WAN)
A network that exists over a large-scale geographical area
Involve a country or continent in order to exchange information. Eg: cellular network
METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORK (MAN)
MAN can cover one city, that can connect more than LAN
Examples: Cable Television network
WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (WLAN)
WLAN is LAN but it do not have uses any physical wires.
LOCAL AREA NETWORK (LAN)
LAN can Transmit information just within a small geographical or limited area like home, school, office building, etc
LAN are used in order to connect personal devices and workstation in office/factories to share and interconnected among them.
PERSONAL AREA NETWORK (PAN)
A computer network organized around an individual, that used for personal use only.
Typically involving a personal computer, phone, printer, tablet, fax and/or some other personal device
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USES OF NETWORKS
Facilitating communication, Sharing Hardware, Sharing Softare, Sharing data & information.
COMPUTER NETWORKS
A computer network is known as a set of autonomous computer interconnected by a single technology. Two computers called as interconnected whenever that two computer be able to exchange information
It is a telecommunication channel that allows us to share out data or information with the others.
The connection between computers can be done via cabbling, via Ethernet cable or wirelessly through radio waves
We called Computer on a network as nodes (points of intersection or connection within a network)
Share software, share data and information, hardware, transfer funds and facilitate communications