Network Structure and Architecture

Network Structure and Architecture
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Introduction
The advancement in technology has enabled most business organisations to embrace the use of information and communication technology in promoting their business activities. Network structures have become a major practice in computer networking for most small business enterprises. Network structure involves the designing and use of a communication network in a business organisation. The communication network in a business organisation takes different architectures and topologies. However, smaller business enterprises do not have a straightforward network structure and architecture to enable it provide secure communication and data transfer. In most cases, smaller firms have moderate requirements in terms of computer networking. Although smaller organisations have fewer computers. The network structure and architecture should be able to allow secure storage, sharing, and retrieval of data (Breeding, 2013). The commonly used network architecture for smaller business organisations are peer to peer and client-server networks. This essay explains the peer-to-peer network architecture for smaller organisations and ways of securing and maintaining the network. In addition, the essay also focuses on the sociotechnical aspects.
Peer-To-Peer Network
Peer to peer network involves sharing of network by computers that are connected together. Peer to peer network is mostly used in domestic workgroups that involves dozens of computers and other machines such printers and scanners. Peer to peer network is commonly found and used in areas that are local networked, mostly home networking. In peer-to-peer network there is the aspect of data processing, which is shared by all computers. This means that it is the responsibility of all connected computers in the network to process data. Failure of one computer may interrupt the processing and sharing of data. The computers in this network run on a sim...