Concept in Definition ABC

A network or network consists of a set of computers connected to each other through various methods to share information and services.

It is called network or also network to those series of computers or computing devices that are connected by means of cables, waves, signals or other mechanisms for the purpose of transmitting data to each other, in addition to resources and services, in order to generate a experience shared work, and save time and money.

Computer networks can vary in their nature and characteristics, but very frequently they respond to an interest cooperative work in an office, company or other area that requires the collaborative effort of several involved. Currently, they are very common in business and institutions because they allow not only to share information and carry out joint actions, but also to save connection costs and software licenses.

Internet, for example, it is a network, by means of which computers in the world are connected through a

Networks are classified according to their scope (personal, local, campus, metropolitan or wide area), by method connection (guided, which can be with cable, fiber or similar, or unguided, which involves radio waves, infrared, laser or wireless), according to functional relationship (of client to server or peer to peer or p2p), for its architecture (bus, star, ring, mesh, tree or mixed network), and by data direction (simplex, half duplex, full duplex).

In contemporary societies, networks increasingly become an essential element for the communication between individuals and corporations at all times, allowing exchanges as fast as they are simple, and facilitating cooperative work and strategic actions.