CIS 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Wide Area Network, Network Architecture, Coaxial Cable

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

Networks is two or more computers connected via software and hardware so that they can communicate with each other. Each device connected to a network is called a node. Can be a computer, a peripheral, a game console, digital video recorder, or a communications device. Allow you to share peripheral devices such as printers. Can easily share files between networked computers without using portable storage. Can set sharing options in windows or os x. Allows user to access files stored on any other computer on the network. Public folders can be accessed by any computer on the network. Computers running different operating systems (windows vs os x) can communicate on the same network. Network administration involves: installing new computers and devices, monitoring the network to ensure it is performing efficiently, updating and installing new software on the network, configuring or setting up proper security for a network. Network architecture refers to the design of a network.