Networking

Types of Telecom Products
By John Hampton · 18 years ago
Welcome to the Internet Revolution, the Age of Technology, and the Era of Telecommunications. Telecommunications (tele-translated from the Greek to mean “distant” and Latin communicare- to participate) is defined as the transmission of information over ...
Choose the right networking standard
By Sanjay Garg · 18 years ago
Networking standards: 802.11g | 802.11b | 802.11a | Dual band | Bluetooth | HomePlug | Ethernet Network standards at a glance 802.11g The 802.11g standard, long touted as the high-performance successor to 802.11b, was ratified ...
ISP Load Balancing
By Mark Henry · 18 years ago
Overview: Scalable, Reliable, Secure are generally not terms that are considered when talking about todays SME's and their connectivity. But these are all issues that most companies face as reliance on Internet communicates increase. ISP ...
CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam Tutorial: Antivirus Programs
By Chris Bryant · 18 years ago
In the first part of this CompTIA Network+ certification exam tutorial, we looked at the different types of viruses and other invaders trying to get into our network, and how antivirus programs help to stop ...
CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam Tutorial: Virus Attacks And Antivirus Programs
By Chris Bryant · 18 years ago
Whether you’re preparing to pass the Network+ or Cisco CCNA certification exam or not, you must not underestimate the importance of antivirus programs and virus definition updates. With all the attention we pay to viruses ...
CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam Tutorial: The Five IP Address Classes
By Chris Bryant · 18 years ago
Passing the CompTIA Network+ certification exam and going on to become a subnetting expert is mastering the basics of IP addressing, and that means knowing the different classes, their default masks, and what these masks ...
CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam Tutorial: DHCP and DHCP Relay Agents
By Chris Bryant · 18 years ago
As a CompTIA Network+ exam candidate, you’re probably familiar with DHCP – but just in case, we’re going to review DHCP basics here and then go into a discussion of DHCP Relay Agents. When it ...
CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam Tutorial: Hot Sites, Warm Sites, and Disaster Recovery
By Chris Bryant · 18 years ago
Part of passing the Network+ exam and being an outstanding network administrator is being prepared for disaster. Sometimes that's a disaster on a relatively small scale, such as a drive failure. If you're running data ...
Network+ Exam Tutorial: Network Interface Cards (NICs)
By Chris Bryant · 18 years ago
Part of the challenge of passing the Network+ exam is learning about all the different types of hardware a network requires. Today we’ll take a look at a vital part of network connectivity, the Network ...
Publishing Your Web Site to the Server?
By Assad Aziz · 18 years ago
The final step of getting yourself online is by publishing your files to the web server. This is done by using an FTP program (File Transfer Protocol=FTP). The FTP server, running FTP server software, listens ...
Unstructured and structured P2P networks!
By Ankit Talwar · 18 years ago
The P2P overlay network consists of all the participating peers as network nodes. There are links between any two nodes that know each other: i.e. if a participating peer knows the location of another peer ...
Peer To Peer!
By Ankit Talwar · 18 years ago
A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. ...
Network+ Certification Exam Tutorial: How And When To Use Virtual LANs (VLANs)
By Chris Bryant · 18 years ago
From your Network+ exam studies, you know that switches forward broadcasts, and that sounds great, but that's not always a good thing. A switch can have anywhere from 12 ports to 80 or more, and ...
Network+ Exam Certification Tutorial: The Bus Topology
By Chris Bryant · 18 years ago
The Physical layer of the OSI model isn't the most exciting or interesting to work with, but it's the foundation for everything we do in networking. The same goes for the physical side of networking ...
Network+ Certification Exam Tutorial: DHCP And RARP
By Chris Bryant · 18 years ago
Part of passing the Network+ exam is mastering the many different protocols and services you're introduced to in your studies, and that's especially hard when two protocols do much the same thing! That's the case ...
Network+ Certification Exam Tutorial: ARP and Proxy ARP Explained
By Chris Bryant · 18 years ago
In yesterday's Network+ tutorial, we talked about the importance of Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) in today's networks. A host PC must have the MAC and IP addresses of a remote host in order to send ...
Wireless Network Security in 6 Easy Steps
By Chris Kaminski · 19 years ago
Connecting your home and office computers with a wireless network sure makes things convenient ...BUT the very feature that makes them so popular is also their biggest weakness! Anyone with the knowledge can intercept your ...
Network Application Acceleration for Beginners
By Ariel Rosenstein · 19 years ago
What is application acceleration? Simply put it is hardware, software, or a combination of the two which speed up programs which rely upon networks or the internet. Application acceleration does not work by making you ...
58% Of Businesses Expect An IT Security Breach in the Next 12 Months
By Lee Smith · 19 years ago
A recent government survey of over 500 small businesses covering London and Surrey regions revealed that 58% of company owners expect a security breach in their IT system in the next year. 24% of those ...
Emails And Network Security
By Andrew Corner · 19 years ago
With the number of small, home-based businesses at present, computers and the internet are fast establishing themselves as essential tools for business management. But the active use of computers in business as means of banking ...