Network Basics
- What is a Network?: two or more computers connected together
- Types of Networks: LAN - Local Area Network; WAN - Wide Area Network
- Why Network?
- share resources (files)
- share resources (hardware)
- share resources (sofware)
- communicate
- Servers and Clients: Servers - provide access to services
Clients (workstations) - computers that use the services
- Kinds of Networks
- Fake networks - Zero-slot networks (Laplink, Internlink)
- Peer-to-peer networks
- Real networks - Client/Server
- What's needed for a Network
- Network Interface cards (NICs)
- Network Cable (coaxial, twisted-pair, fiber-optic)
- Network Hub
- Network Software
- Network Manager: network administrator / supervisor
