Today, IBM refers to its larger processors as large server and emphasizes that they can be used to serve distributed users and smaller servers in a computing network. Links together multiple episodes of patient care, ties together data created under different patient identifiers. It is also used to mean the interconnection of several local area networks by bridging them with backbone lines. The latter usage is also sometimes referred to as a campus network . In information technology, a network is a series of points or node interconnected by communication paths.
Networks can interconnect with other networks and contain subnetworks.
The most common topology or general configurations of networks include the bus, star , and token ring topologies.