CIS 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Local Area Network, Wide Area Network, File Server

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

Document Summary

Chapter twelve of technology in action: networking and security in the business world. Network: a group of two or more computers (nodes) that are configured to share information and resources: advantages: Require network administrators (have training in computer and peripheral maintenance and repair, networking design, and the installation of networking software) Client/server network: contains servers as well as client computers: main advantage is that it makes data flow more efficiently than peer to peer networks. Scalability: more users can be added easily without affecting the performance of the other network nodes. Decentralized: users are responsible for creating their own data backups and for providing security for their computers --> p2p networks. Centralized: all clients connect to a server that performs tasks for them --> client/server networks. Local area network (lan): a generally small group of computers and peripherals linked together over a relatively small geographic area.