Monday, October 19, 2009

Post number 3

A network is a group of computers that are connected that can share information. We need a network to have access to the internet and it is very useful in schools and buisnesses..
The four benefits of using a network are:
Information sharing, hardware sharing, software sharing, collaberative enviornment
Differentiate between WANs and LANs.
WAN is a wide area network composed of local area networks LANS. LAN is used in a small geographical area while WAN can be as big as you want it.
three common network topologies are:
Ring, Bus, and Star





Four examples of network operation system software are:
JUNOS, Novell Netware, Linux, Cisco IOS

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