Computer networks are complex, involving multiple layers of hardware, software and protocols governing the transmission and reception of data. The network must simultaneously integrate many functions while maintaining compatibility of device connections. Network architecture is the name for the design principles that go into creating and building a computer network. Designing a network involves both [...]

This article provides an overview of the following network protocols and technologies: PPP, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, netBEUI, FTP, HTTP, NFS, SMTP, ICMP, Telnet and SSH. Network design has advanced as computer technology has expanded and grown more powerful. Networks allow linked computers to share data. This basic functionality belies a complex interaction of a multiplicity of different rules, [...]

What Is A LAN? Local area networks (LANs) are created to provide networking services to a group of computers that are relatively close to one another. A LAN can serve a single floor in an office building or a classroom in a school. The size of a given LAN can vary from one room to [...]