A network at your place of business allows employees to share files, printers, and software and affords easier employee communicate with one another. There are two main types of networks. Before you start to tear your office apart to set up a network, you must establish how many people will be using the network and the needs of those people. This is important because the number of workstations, and the needs of those people using those workstations, require different types of networks. Computer servers help manage traffic and other services on the network and act as a central clearinghouse where information can be stored and accessed by all your employees.
Application servers are usually computers with large hard drives and a lot of memory.
Windows 95 is designed so you can share files and peripherals on any computer and even comes with instructions on how to set it up. A network operating system establishes and maintains the connection between the workstations and the file server, because the physical connections alone are not sufficient to support networking. Ethernet is a networking standard originally developed in 1973 by Xerox and formalized in 1980 by DEC, Intel and Xerox. The 10BASE-T Ethernet cabling type is the most popular LAN technology in use today. The standard 10BASE-T Ethernet method sends data to a hub, which then rebroadcasts this data to every port on the network until it reaches its destination.