Networking Terms: Educating the Client by Joshua Feinberg
It is very important to educate your small business prospects and clients on key small business networking terms and buzzwords. After all, in order to "win them over," you need to be speaking the same language. In fact, you may even want to prepare a "cheat sheet", based on the below... • LAN (Local Area Network) – set of computer systems and peripheral devices connected for sharing resources and providing near instantaneous communications; today’s small business LANs are typically physically connected using Ethernet network adapters and Category 5 cabling; when extended to one or more...

Networking Terms: Educating Your Clients by Joshua Feinberg
It is very important to educate your small business prospects and clients on key small business networking terms and buzzwords. After all, in order to "win them over", you need to be speaking the same language. In fact, you may even want to prepare a "cheat sheet", based on the below... • NIC (Network Interface Card) - a printed circuit board, adapter card or the underlying supporting chipset that snaps into the motherboard of a desktop PC, notebook or server and transmits and receives packets on a network; used to connect to networks including a local area network (LAN), wide area network...

IP Address Classes, and Address Masks by Vijayanand Yadla
IP Addressing An IP address is a unique logical identifier for a node or host connection on an IP network. IP address is a 32 bit binary number, and represented by 4 decimal values of 8 bits each. The decimal values range from 0 to 255. This is known as "dotted decimal" notation. ... The IP network is divided based on Class of network. ... Class A: NNNNNNNN.HHHHHHHH.HHHHHHHH.HHHHHHHH Class B: NNNNNNNN.NNNNNNNN.HHHHHHHH.HHHHHHHH Class C: NNNNNNNN.NNNNNNNN.NNNNNNNN.HHHHHHHH In the example, 192.189.210.078 is a Class C address so by default the Network part of the address...

Intranet Extranet Software by Damian Sofsian
Extranet is that part of an intranet that is made available to people outside the organization. In other words, it as an extension of the intranet used by a company. The main aim of an extranet is to provide useful information to users outside the company in a secure environment. ... Any loophole in security could allow non-authorized access to your internal network, and that can have serious consequences in the long run. ... When one builds an extranet on the basis of internal resources, one may require customized extranet software.

Network Management by Ismael Tabije
It is a great deficiency to organizations if they fail to automate their internal and external business operations or transactions. Computers are premium must-haves for organizations, educational institutions, government offices and small-, medium- and large-scale enterprises. ... A risk-free and wonderfully managed network infrastructure enables network access to local and remote users without jeopardizing the network or the organizational data on it. ... Network management encompasses functions such as providing support services, ensuring that the network is used efficiently, and...

IT Networking: Cost-Savings, Productivity and Security by Joshua Feinberg
By engaging small business decision makers in discussions about their IT networking needs, you can highlight how automating services like faxing will save your prospect’s or client’s company on manual labor, which indirectly translates into substantial salary savings over the course of the year. ... Staff and the internal guru will likely want to talk about ease of use and administration, how the network will make their job easier and the amount of training required to become proficient. ... Besides faxing and Internet access, a client/server network makes sharing, protecting and securing...

IP Addresses: Finding, Understanding and Using by Adam Knife
IP addresses are like real-world addresses, they are identifiers for computers or devices connected to TCP/IP networks. The entire TCP/IP networking protocol is based on the concept of a unique IP address for every object connected to the network. Messages sent via TCP/IP networks are routed to... Private networks, such as internal LANs can have any IP addresses they want as long as each is unique, however, to connect to the public and regulated Internet, you will need to use a registered IP address (distributed by the various Internet registries: ARIN, RIPE, etc.) The number of available...

Port Forwarding (what is Port Forwarding) by Edgar Lee
The term Port Forwarding is referred to the technique of forwarding a network port from one particular machine to another machine. This technique is usually applied when the receiving machine is behind a network router. By doing this, it enables users from outside the LAN (local area network) to... Likewise, when another machine outside the network is sending data to a recipient inside the network, the data transmission will be transmitted to the external IP address and not directly to the intended recipient.

Why Cisco Routers Offer A Comprehensive Network Solution For Your Business by Steve Lee
Businesses today demand more from their networks than in the past. Networks today now need to support all forms of media including video, voice and data. Access has also changed as thousands of new devices connect to the network via wireless and wired connections. ... To solve the many challenges of your business your network needs intelligence to play a big role in securing applications in a way that is easy to manage. ... The main point of preventing and responding to security threats from internal and external sources comes from an integrated strategy of multiple types of protection.

WinXP Routing - Staying Online During Hurricane Wilma by Darren Miller
Hurricane Wilma Put Me Out Of Business For A While ----------------------------------------------- WinXP Routing - My consulting services business is heavily dependent on Internet access. Without it, I am pretty much dead in the water. Since I cannot afford an enterprise satellite backup... All of your internal workstations / systems must point to the internal network card / IP on the laptop as the default gateway. ... The internal network card, the real Ethernet port integrated into my laptop, was assigned an address such as 192.168.0.254/24 (to be my default gateway for all my...