Archive for June, 2011

The routers and switches give you the right networking solutions

There has been a lot of talk about the convergence of technologies and the growing ease of transferring all types of data between them. Single most important factor which has contributed to this convergence is the emergence of digital technology. All of the modern electronic equipments, instruments and other products are based on digital technology. The transmission of text, pictures and even high resolution videos over different platforms and media by way of wired and wireless technology is now possible. The cables and the use of intermediary instruments like routers & switches can facilitate connection between devices.

The routers and switches having multiple ports can be used for networking purposes, connecting one PC with many others. The cables for them are usually selected on the basis of the number of computers to be interconnected and the bandwidth. There is a difference between internal working of the routers and the switches. The discerning customers shall know the same so that they can know exactly what they require to buy.
The routers are designed to join multiple area networks. In a home connection, the router is used to join a LAN with a WAN network so that the internet connection is established in different PCs. These are called the broadband routers. For large corporations, the traditional routers could be used both for sharing of internet and also for running intermediate traffic among the organization computers. These work by identifying the TCP/IP address of each incoming data source and then, transferring these to the destination IP address.

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Large Corporate Computer Networks and USB Security

In todays world many companies have their own local Secured! computer networks.  Most companies use the star network configuration for ease of use and lazy computer networks engineers.

An avarage size company will have about 200+ computer stations in their local network attached in a star configuration to one server and this one server is usually attached to the internet to give all the users their gateway to heaven, or maybe not ?

You know that hardware and software firewalls all have been hacked and penetrated by unemployed excellent programmers and engineers.  No one is safe anymore from getting loads of viruses through the internet.  One virus through the server can turn the internet gateway to heaven into hell.

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