A Desk Area Network (DAN) is a workstation with multimedia capabilities that uses ATM interconnect (this is shown in the figure below). A workstation is a computer that is specially designed for scientific or technical applications. Workstations provide higher performance ...
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What is Server? |Types of Server
In computer networking, the Server is defined as the database or storage which helps many other computer devices to store their data or information in large quantities. Basically, Server is a device that provides the requirement for functioning to clients ...
Wide Area Network Advantages and Disadvantages
Wide Area Network (WAN) is a collection of various local area networks(LAN) to transmit the data to the large geographical area in the form of voice, video, image, files. A LAN is a small area network that connects the network ...
Tree Topology Advantages and Disadvantages
Tree topology is a hierarchy or inherited type of topology consisting of various hubs. So, it is meant to be a hierarchy of hubs. Where all nodes are connected one to another or these hubs are connected to all the ...
What is Peer to Peer and Client Server, Benefits, Drawbacks
Firstly, we can talk about Peer to Peer or p2p networks. So, this is an administered application-based architecture that divides tasks or workloads between peers. These are equally private, proportionate application participants. They make a separate portion of their resources, ...
Hybrid Topology Advantages and Disadvantages
As suggested by the name itself, a hybrid topology network is a combination of two different types of topologies. What we need to keep in mind is that two typologies of the same kind cannot be combined together to form ...
What is Internet, Intranet and Extranet
What is Internet? The advantage of the internet is that all the employees working in an organization is connected to each other on a common platform other than the social media where they can discuss the important issues and the ...
What is Metropolitan Area Network and how does it work
A Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) is a network which connects various computers, resources and users in a geographical spread larger than a Local Area Network (LAN) but has a smaller area than a Wide Area Network (WAN). Thus, several LANs ...
Limitation of Wired Network Connection
Traditional Wired networks connection have been in use for decades now. Wired network evolution has taken years and recently they have developed exponentially. They have been made reliable, fast and secure over the years. To know more about Wired Network ...
Unguided Transmission Media | Working, Advantages and Disadvatanges
A wireless medium that doesn’t have any physical path in between is also meant to be an unguided transmission media, where the transmission doesn’t need to be guided. This can also be called wireless transmission media. Generally, the waves get ...