Network Generations - Network evolution




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Network generations
There are described the most common types of network generations. They are important for explaining how do, these concepts work. Beside this there is mentioned which of these concept you can use when you are building or already using servers (collocation).

There are described the most common three types of network generations. The first type is terminal-host for systems with mainframes or minicomputers supplying all of the intelligence to dumb terminals. The second type is the client/file server for the generation with a dumb host and smart PCs. The third type is the client/server type for the systems in which all elements of the network have considerable intelligence. And the last type of generation family is Peer-to-peer type.

1 Peer-to-peer
2 Terminal-Host
3 Client-File Server
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