Network Topics - Network and Networking Blog, News & More http://www.networktopics.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:27:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 en Networking Information http://www.networktopics.com/general/networking-information/ http://www.networktopics.com/general/networking-information/#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:27:05 +0000 admin http://www.networktopics.com/general/networking-information/ Computer networking is the engineering discipline concerned with communication between computer systems or devices. Such communicating computer systems constitute a computer network and these networks generally involve at least two devices capable of being networked with at least one usually being a computer. The devices can be separated by a few meters (e.g. via Bluetooth) or nearly unlimited distances (e.g. via the Internet). Computer networking is sometimes considered a sub-discipline of telecommunications, and sometimes of computer science, information technology and computer engineering. Computer networks rely heavily upon the theoretical and practical application of these scientific and engineering disciplines.

A computer network is any set of computers or devices connected to each other. Examples of networks are the Internet, a wide area network that is the largest to ever exist, or a small home local area network (LAN) with two computers connected with standard networking cables connecting to a network interface card in each computer.

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