introduction ,local area network, characteristics of LAN, use of LAN, WWW, difference between LAN and WAN, network topology, internet, email

1. COMPUTER NETWORKS
MS. M. FLORENCE DAYANA
ASST. PROFESSOR IN BCA,
BON SECOURS COLLEGE FOR
WOMEN,THANJAVUR
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2. COMPUTER NETWORKS
 A computer network is an interconnection of various
computer systems located at different places
 Two or more computers are linked together with a
medium and data communication devices for the
purpose of communicating data and sharing resources
 The computer that provides resources to other computers
on a network is known as server.
 Individual computers in the network, which access shared
network resources, are known as nodes.
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3. Local Area Network (LAN)
 Networks used to interconnect computers in a single room,
rooms within a building or buildings on one site are called
Local Area Network (LAN).
 LAN transmits data with a speed of several megabits per
second
 The transmission medium is normally coaxial cables.
 LAN links computers, in the same area for the purpose of
sharing information.
 Usually LAN links computers within a limited geographical area
because they must be connected by a cable, which is quite
expensive.
 People working in LAN get more capabilities in data
processing, work processing and other information exchange
compared to stand-alone computers.
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4. Characteristics of LAN
1) every computer has the potential to
communicate with any other computers of the
network
2) high degree of connection between computers
3) easy physical connection of computers in a
network
4) inexpensive medium of data transmission
5) high data transmission rate
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5. Use of LAN
1) File transfers and Access
2) Word and text processing
3) Electronic message handling
4) Remote database access
5) Personal computing
6) Digital voice transmission and storage
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6. Wide Area Network
 The termWide Area Network (WAN) is
used to describe a computer network
spanning a regional, national or global area.
 For example, for a large company the head
quarters might be at Cairo and regional
branches at Mansoura,Tanta , and Aswan.
 the transmission medium used are normally
telephone lines, microwaves and satellite
links
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7. The characteristics of WAN
 Communication Facility: For a big
company spanning over the country the
employees can save long distance phone
calls and it overcomes the time lag in
overseas communications.
 Computer conferencing is another use
ofWAN where users communicate with
each other through their computer
system.
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8.  Remote Data Entry is possible in WAN. It
means sitting at any location you can enter
data, update data and query other
information of any computer attached to the
WAN
 Centralized Information: This means if
the organization is spread over many cities,
they keep their important business data in a
single place.WAN permits collection of this
data from different sites and save at a single
site
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9. Difference between LAN and WAN
 LAN is restricted to limited geographical area of few kilometers.
ButWAN covers great distance and operate nationwide or even
worldwide.
 In LAN, the computer terminals and peripheral devices are
connected with wires and coaxial cables. InWAN there is no
physical connection. Communication is done through telephone
lines and satellite links.
 Cost of data transmission in LAN is less because the transmission
medium is owned by a single organization. In case of WAN the
cost of data transmission is very high because the transmission
medium used are hired, either telephone lines or satellite links.
 The speed of data transmission is much higher in LAN than in
WAN. Few data transmission errors occur in LAN compared to
WAN.
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10. NETWORKTOPOLOGY
StarTopology
 In star topology a number of workstations are directly linked to a
central node as the next figure.
 Any communication between stations on a star LAN must pass
through the central node.
 The central node controls all the activities of the nodes.
The advantages of the star topology are:
 It offers flexibility of adding or deleting of workstations from the
network.
 Breakdown of one station does not affect entire system
The major disadvantage of star topology is that failure of the central
node disables communication throughout the whole network
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11. Star topolgy
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12. BusTopology
 In bus topology all workstations are connected to a
single communication line called bus.
 There is no central node as in star topology.
 Transmission from any station travels the length of the
bus in both directions and can be received by all
workstations.
The advantage of the bus topology is that
 It is quite easy to set up.
 If one station of the topology fails it does not affect
the entire system.
 The disadvantage of bus topology is that any
break in the bus is difficult to identify.
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13. BusTopology
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14. RingTopology
 In ring topology each station is attached nearby stations
on a point to point basis so that the entire system is in
the form of a ring.
 In this topology data is transmitted in one direction only.
 Thus the data packets circulate along the ring in either
clockwise or anti-clockwise direction.
The advantage of this topology is that any signal
transmitted on the network passes through all the LAN
stations.
The disadvantage of ring network is that the
breakdown of any one station on the ring can disable the
entire system.
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15. RingTopology
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16. INTERNET
 The Internet is a network of networks
 Computer users on the Internet can contact one
another anywhere in the world
 In Internet a huge resource of information is
accessible to people across the world
 Information in every field starting from education,
science, health, medicine, history, and geography to
business, news, etc. can be retrieved through Internet
 You can also download programs and software
packages from anywhere in the world
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17. Origin of Internet
 In 1969 Department of Defense (DOD) of USA
started a network called ARPANET (Advanced
Research Projects Administration Network )
 Around 1970, NSFNET (National Science Foundation
Network) was created.With the advancement of
modern communication facilities,
 By 1990 many computers were looking up to
NSFNET giving birth to Internet
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18. Internet functions
 Internet is not a governmental organization.
 The ultimate authority of the Internet is the Internet
Society.
 This is a voluntary membership organization whose
purpose is to promote global information exchange.
 Internet has more than one million computers
attached to it.
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19. E-mail
 E-mail stands for electronic mail.
 This is one of the most widely used features of
Internet.
 In electronic mail the data are transmitted
through Internet and therefore within minutes
the message reaches the destination may it be
anywhere in the world.
 Therefore the mailing system is excessively fast
and is being used widely for mail transfer
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20. Features of E-mail
1) One-to-one or one-to-many
communications
2) Instant communications
3) Physical presence of recipient is not
required
4) Most inexpensive mail service, 24-hours
a day and seven days a week
5) Encourages informal communication
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21. Components of an E-mail Address
 As in the case of normal mail system, e-mail is also
based upon the concept of a recipient address.
 The email address provides all of the information
required to get a message to the recipient from
anywhere in the world. Consider the e-mail ID
 flo@hotmail.com
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22. flo@hotmail.com
 In the example above,“flo" is the local part,
which is the name of a mailbox on the
destination computer, where finally the mail
will be delivered.
 Hotmail is the mail server where the
mailbox “flo" exists,
 .com is the type of organization on net
 .edu Educational institutions
 .gov Government site
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23. FileTransfer Protocol (FTP)
 FileTransfer Protocol, is an Internet utility
software used to upload and download files.
 It gives access to directories or folders on remote
computers and allows software, data and text files to
be transferred between different kinds of computers.
 FTP works on the basis of same principle as that of
Client/Server.
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24.  FTP "Client" is a program running on the your
computer that enables you to talk to, and get stuff
from, remote computers.
 The FTP client takes FTP commands and sends them
as requests for information from the remote
computer or known as FTP servers.
 To access remote FTP server it is required but not
necessary to have an account in the FTP server.
 When the FTP client gets connected
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25. The objectives of FTP
The basic objectives of FTP are
 to give flexibility and promote sharing of
computer programs, files and data
 to transfer data reliably and more
efficiently over network
 to encourage implicit or indirect use of
remote computers using Internet
 to shield a user from variations in file
storage systems among hosts
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26. Telnet (Remote Computing)
 Telnet or remote computing is telecommunication utility software,
which uses available telecommunication facility and allows you to
become a user on a remote computer.
 Once you gain access to the remote computer, you can use it for
the intended purpose.
 The TELNET works in a very step by step procedure.The
commands typed on the client computer are sent to the local
Internet Service Provider (ISP), and then from the ISP to the
remote computer that you have gained access.
 Most of the ISP provides facility toTELNET into your own
account from another city and check your e-mail while you are
traveling or away.
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27. WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW)
 WWW is the short form for the World WideWeb. It is also
commonly known as ‘The Web’.
 The WWW is hypertext based information retrieval tool.
 One can easily surf the Web by jumping from one document to
another using the links in those documents.
 These documents can be in many formats, such as text,
graphics, animation, sound and latest is video.They may also be
a combination of all these.
 All the information on Internet are presented to the user as a
document or more popularly known as Web Page.
 All these Web Pages are link to each other or even to section
within a Web Page.And these links are known as Hyper Links.
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28. The Web browser
 The tool used to view theseWeb Pages on Internet is
known as Internet browser or simply browser.
 It is a software program specifically developed to
extract information on user request from the Internet
and present them as a Web Page to the viewer
 The most popular are Internet Explorer from Microsoft
and Netscape from Netscape Inc
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