EECS 1520 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: File Transfer Protocol, Web Server, File Server

• School: York University
• Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Course: EECS 1520
• Professor: Avi Cohen

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=vlookup(what to look for, where (table), return (col#)) Computer network: a collection of computing devices that are connected in various ways in order to communicate and share resources. Usually, the connections between computers in a network are made using physical wires or cables. However, some connections are wireless, using radio waves or infrared signals. The generic term node or host refers to any device on a network. Protocol: a set of rules that defines how data is formatted and processed on a network. Data transfer rate: the speed with which data is moved from one place on a network to another. Often referred to as the bandwidth of a network. Data transfer rate is a key issue in computer networks. Computer networks have opened up an entire frontier in the world of computing called the client/ server model: A distributed approach in which a client makes requests of a server and the server responds.