CGS 2100C Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Profinet, Packet Switching, Token Ring
9 Jul 2016
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What is networking: defined in merriam-webster dictionary as the exchange of information services among individuals, groups, or institutions; specifically the cultivation of productive relationships for employment or business. Networking application: a list of familiar use of network and networking comprises: Sewer network: modern global business and thirsty global market made business professionals anxious to invent ways that improve business practice. We use to consider two or more computers inked together as a computer network, but practically a computer etwork consists of at least 3 computers linked together by means of telecommunication media. Computer networks are usually tailored to match the structure of a given establishment, business, or any organization. Because this structure includes a lot of ramifications and substructures, a business networks usually is a network of sub- networks looking like the metaphor of the tree structure. Each computer in the network is know as a node or workstation: network classification by size.
