what does networking mean to YOU?

[dpopiz]

I ask everyone this question and always get different answers, so it's quite interesting;

How do you make the distinction between one big computer and a bunch of computers networked?

How is a network connection different from an internal bus?

etc


Basically this question is trying to examine what the mental CONCEPT of networking really means....

 

[spidey07]

Networking means communicating with a different host, using network technologies.

Although the term is very ambiguous and has many differet meanings depending on who you are talking to.

At the core a computer/host has all the normal components (processor, input/output, storage) - those don't apply to networking to an extent. To draw an analogy of two tin cans on a string, networking is the string would be appropriate.

Interal buses operate at their high speed do to the distances involved and strict clock control. You don't have a separate clock with networking, and it is almost always serially transmitted/received.

I guess to make the disctiontion is the processor - the processor controls the host. But with networking there is no central processor controlling things. The fact that you can communicate with any computer, regardless of operating system, processor, network interface, etc should pound that one home. Try that with a bus.

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: dpopiz
I ask everyone this question and always get different answers, so it's quite interesting;

How do you make the distinction between one big computer and a bunch of computers networked?

The difference is a crapload of wires that I have to crimp and hookup.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: dpopiz
I ask everyone this question and always get different answers, so it's quite interesting;

How do you make the distinction between one big computer and a bunch of computers networked?

The difference is a crapload of wires that I have to crimp and hookup.

Well, since this is hi-tech....

You shouldn't ever have to re-crimp wires because you're not supposed to be crimping cables anyway without a means to certify the link and channels to Category 5/5e/6 standards. Not only that but being able to make a Cetegory rated patch cable isn't in the standards. No such thing exists.