Tuesday 15 January 2013

COMPUTERNETWORK

A computer network


computer network, or simply a network, is a collection of computers and other hardwareinterconnected by communication channels that allow sharing of resources and information.[1]Where at least one process in one device is able to send/receive data to/from at least one process residing in a remote device, then the two devices are said to be in a network. computer network is a group of devices connected to each other. Networks may be classified into a wide variety of characteristics, such as the medium used to transport the data, communications protocol used, scale, topology, benefit, and organizational scope.
In A computer network Communications protocols define the rules and data formats for exchanging information in a computer network, and provide the basis for network programming. A computer network is Well-known communications protocols include two Ethernet, a hardware and link layer standard that is ubiquitous in local area networks, and the Internet protocol suite, which defines a set of protocols for internetworking, i.e. for data communication between multiple networks, as well as host-to-host data transfer, and application-specific data transmission formats

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