What does Networking mean in computer language?
A Computer Network is a group of computers connected to each other electronically through various cable.
This describes that a computer can communicate with each other,by this they can easily send information.The speed will be faster than the internet connection and it depends on the cable connected between the system.
>A local area network (often called LAN) connects to or more computers and may be called corporate network with in an office or building setting.
>An "internetwork" sometimes called a wide area network connects two or more smaller networks together.The largest internetwork is called Internet.
How to set up a network between two system?
> To set up a network we required a media.The media can be a wired or wireless.Twisted-pair,fiber optics are examples of cables and infra-red,blue-tooth,radio-wave,micro-wave etc.,are wireless media used for networking.When working with LAN means,computer peripherals are sufficient.When working with WAN means,we need Router,Bridge,Gateway,Switch and Hub to connect small or large networks.And a protocol must be maintained.
> To set up a network you have to select an appropriate topology is required to arrange thce hardware devices using Media.Topologies generally used are bus-topology,ring-topology,star-topology,tree-topology,object-oriented topology etc..,Among these star-topology and tree-topology are most popular nowadays.
About the various cable ,hardware devices and topologies will be discussed in next post..
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