Network Categories

• Peer-to-peer computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application. They are said to form a peer-to-peer network of nodes.
  


• Server Based Network consists of a group of user-oriented PCs (called Clients) that request and receive network services from specialized computers called Servers. Servers are generally higher-performance systems, optimized to provide network services to other PCs.
  

Network Configuration

Components

• Server

computer that provided shared resources to network users.

• Client:

computers that access shared network resources provided by a server.

• Media:

the wires that makes the physical connection.

• Shared Data:

files provided to clients by servers across network.

• Shared Printers:

additional sources provided for servers.

• Resources:

Any services or devices such as files, printers.