Categories of Network

Network can be divided in to two main categories:


Peer-to-peer.

Server – based. In peer-to-peer networking there are no dedicated servers or hierarchy among the computers. All of the computers are equal and therefore known as peers. Normally each computer serves as Client/Server and there is no one assigned to be an administrator responsible for the entire network.Peer-to-peer networks are good choices for needs of small organizations where the users are allocated in the same general area, security is not an issue and the organization and the network will have limited growth within the foreseeable future.The term Client/server refers to the concept of sharing the work involved in processing data between the client computer and the most powerful server computer.