CIS 1000 Lecture Notes - Home Network, Wide Area Network, Local Area Network

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1000
• Professor: Zoe

Document Summary

Cis*1000 chapter summaries chapter 7: networking: what is a computer network, two or more computers connected by software and hardware that communicate with each other, each device connected to a network is referred to as a node. Os x) to communicate: what disadvantages are there to having computers networked, cost (creating a network involves acquiring additional equipment, network administration - networks require maintenance in the form of administration. Administration entails: installing new devices on the network, checking to make sure the network is running, updating software on the network, configuring network security properly, network architecture how a network is designed. Can be classified by a number of different characteristics: through network administration, networks can be administered locally or centrally: Local administration means each node in a network is taken care of separately: a peer-to-peer (p2p) network is a good example of a locally administered network.