Computer Networking is very vital and important to human
life and organizations because of the following reasons:
Sharing Information or Data
Sharing of information quickly and inexpensively has
proven to be one of the most popular use of networking technology. E-mail
happens to be the number-activity of people who use the internet. Many
businesses have invested in networks specifically to take advantage of
network-based e-mail and scheduling programs.
By making information available for sharing, networks can
reduce need for paper communication, increase efficiency, and make nearly any
type of data available simultaneously to every user who needs it. Managers can
use these utilities to communicate quickly and efficiently with large numbers
of people and to organize and schedule meetings with people drawn from an
entire company or business enterprise.
Sharing Software
Network is used to share and standardize applications,
such as word processors, spreadsheets, inventory database and so onto ensure that
everyone on the network is using the same applications and the same versions of
those applications. This allows documents to be shared easily and creates
training efficiencies because it is easier for people to master one word
processing application than to tryc to learn five or six different types.
Sharing Hardware
When there were no networks,
computer users needed their own printers, fax and other peripherals and the
only way to share a fax then was to take turns sitting at the computer
connected to the printer. Network has made it possible for many people to share
data and peripherals simultaneously. Many people can use a printer available on
a network at xb.
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Centralizing Administration and Support
Computers on a network also simplifies support tasks. It
allows a technical personnel to support a version of one operating system or
application angels Of also to set up Q P all the computers in the network in
the same manner instead of suppya TG orting many individual and unique systems
and setups.
Efficiency :
Redundancy :
Networks reduce the need for hard copies of
all documents. By sharing files over the network, the need to share paper
copies of reports or any other information can be eliminated or greatly
reduced.
Quickest Document Delivery :
Internet provides a facility to instantly
deliver soft copies from one computer to other computer throughout the world.
Efficient Use Of Storage Media :
It’s better to store a shareable application
data on a network drive than to store a copy of the application on each user’s storage
device. It is better to have one big hard disk in the server than to have small
hard disks in different computers.
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