T3.1.2 Networks

LAN

• Local network connecting nearby devices, such as within a building or campus environment.
• Small-scale network dividing nearby devices, such as within a building or campus environment.
• Regulations dictating communication methods and data formats for networked systems.

Clients

• Devices seeking services or resources from servers within a network infrastructure.
• Devices sharing services or resources with servers within a network infrastructure.
• Entity establishing technology standards, encompassing networking and electronics.

Servers

• Computers providing services or resources to users within a network environment.
• Computers receiving services or resources to users within a network environment.
• Global organization promoting and developing standards and protocols for the internet.

Hardware

• Physical elements of a computer setup, including processors, memory, and storage units.
• Software elements of a computer setup, that support processors, memory, and storage units.
• Capability of devices or software to seamlessly interact and work together within a network.

Common rules

• Shared principles ensuring uniformity and coordination among connected devices.
• Shared principles ensuring disparity and disarray among connected devices.
• components integral to computer systems or network infrastructures.

Standards

• Defined standards ensuring uniformity and compatibility between hardware and software across networks.
• Defined standards ensuring disparity and incompatibility between hardware and software across networks.
• Ports facilitating connection of peripherals like keyboards and drives to computers.

Networking protocols

• Regulations dictating communication methods and data formats for networked systems.
• Regulations negating communication methods and data formats for networked systems.
• Terminals used for establishing wired links between networking devices.

IEEE

• Entity establishing technology standards, encompassing networking and electronics.
• Entity establishing technology standards, encompassing networking and electronics but lacking implementation.
• Consensual protocols ensuring consistent data exchange among networked devices.

IETF

• Global organization promoting and developing standards and protocols for the internet.
• Global organization suppressing standards and protocols for the internet.
• Capability of devices or systems to interact and exchange data within a networked environment.

Compatibility

• Capability of devices or software to seamlessly interact and work together within a network.
• Capability of devices or software to inefficiently interact and work together within a network.
• Local network connecting nearby devices, such as within a building or campus environment.