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7 Cards in this Set
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Mainframe Network
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central computer-manages all other NW devices. Terminals are connected directly to the mainframe and have no processing power.
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Mainframe Network
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Point of Failure-once central point
NW Traffic - heavy network traffics since all terminals must process through same Central mainframe Cost-Expensive |
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Client/Server Model
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NW model that distributes processing among different computers or applicatons.
Known as Two-Tier Computing 1st tier is client 2nd tier is server 3rd can added as a database server |
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Client/Server Model
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Less work for server -since Client can also process data.
Scalable-new systems can added easily. |
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Peer-to-Peer Model
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Distributes security and resources among all devices.so that each workstation is responsible for providing resources or security specific on it's network.
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Peer-to-Peer
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Choice of Resources-users can choose whch resources they want to share.
Cost- not much to set up since a central server is not needed User Friendly-Administrators require little training.also have highly visible cabling so setup is straightforward. |
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Peer-to-Peer
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Difficult to control centrally which causes security problems.
Cannot support high network traffic. Suitable for NW with less than 10 users. File Management problems because users can install and upgrade servers as they want. |
