CIS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Coaxial Cable, Mac Address, Magnetic Stripe Card

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Allow expensive resources to be shared- like printers. Facilitate knowledge sharing- increase the availability of data. Enable software sharing- can use the same license for a software used on the network. Facilitate internet connection- connect to one internet connection. Enable enhanced communication- such as social network, im etc. Maintenance via network administrators, who are trained. Server: is a computer that stores and shares resource on a network. Client: is a computer that requests those resources. Client/server network: is a network that contains servers and client computers. Each node connects to a p2p network instead of having a separate device exercise control over the network: advantage: allows the data to flow more efficiently than a p2p network. The servers can respond to a large number of requests at the same time. Inconvenient to have these servers for more than 10 users. There is no centralized security so each user must protect their computer.

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