Saturday, 5 November 2011

TYPES OF NETWORKS

o   Local Area Network or LAN
Metropolitan Area Network or MAN
o   Wide Area Network or WAN

>LAN cover a small region of space,typically a single building.
>MAN is a collection of LANs with the same geographical area,for instance a city.
>WAN can be a collected of LANs or MANs or the mix of two with a very large geographical area.

TYPE OF NETWORK ARCHITECTURE

§  Is the overall design of a computer network that describes how a computer network is configured and what strategies are being used.
§  Mainly focuses on the function of the network.
§  The two mainly network archectures : CLIENT/SERVER NETWORK and PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK .


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