| Why Computers and Networks? | | | | implementing Intranet. Company's websites and email |
| Computers have become a necessity for all types of | | | | are completely dependent on Internet. In brief, internet is |
| working environment. No matter what type of work | | | | the most important and fastest medium of |
| you are doing, computers can help you in maximizing | | | | communication in current hi-tech world. |
| your work efficiency. Due to this fact computers are | | | | Network Related Problems |
| being used in all types of offices. Some areas like | | | | As an end user you must have experienced various |
| banking, insurance, stock exchange as well as | | | | types of problems in your network during your work. |
| reservation systems completely rely on use of | | | | Due to network downtime organizations have to bear |
| Computers and Internet. | | | | loss of several productive working hours or in turn loss |
| In a computing environment people need inter | | | | of revenue. Network downtime for your web servers |
| connectivity of computers to share resources like (files | | | | may result unavailability of your website, in that case |
| and data). It further helps in use and management of | | | | your potential viewers may not find required |
| information collected through various nodes. These | | | | information through your website. It may create a |
| kinds of network that is being implemented in a | | | | negative impact of your company/organization or |
| particular organization are known as Intranets. Intranet | | | | business |
| helps in information sharing between different offices | | | | To deal with such problems immediately organizations |
| of same organization at different locations. It works on | | | | need network diagnosis and maintenance experts to |
| LAN (Local Area Network), MAN (Metropolitan Area | | | | fix such problems to further reduce loss of productive |
| Network) or WAN (Wide Area Network). There are | | | | working hours. However, it is not possible for every |
| mainly three ways of implementing different type of | | | | organization to hire a fulltime team of networking |
| networks - wired, wireless or mixed (wired and | | | | experts to solve their network issues. They prefer to |
| wireless both as and when required). | | | | rely upon network security consultants, who help them |
| Why Internet? | | | | whenever needed. It's a cost-effective alternative for |
| Internet is information superhighway, one of the major | | | | organizations because they don't have to hire full time |
| and accurate sources of getting information on any | | | | professionals for taking care of their network |
| topic quickly. It is also used as backbone for | | | | troubleshooting needs. |