CIS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Network-Attached Storage, Smart Tv, Optical Fiber

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

Computer network two or more computers that are connected via software and hardware so they can communicate with each other: each device connected to a network is called a node (computer, phone, The benefits of networks are: sharing an internet connection, sharing a printer + other peripherals, sharing files, common communications. Network administration installing new computers and devices, monitoring the network to ensure its performing efficiently, updating and installing new software on the network, and configuring proper security for a network. Networks can be administered, or managed, in two main ways: The ability of current devices to use earlier standards in addition to the current standard is known as backwards compatibility. The most commonly used wired ethernet standard for home networks is the gigabit. All network nodes are connected to each other and to the network by transmission media establish communication channels between the nodes of a network.