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Why You need Office Networking?
What is a Network?
Simply, a network is a collection of computers, printers, and other electronic devices, linked by cables or wireless, allowing them to communicate with each other. A network allows individuals to share and exchange information (files and programs), access common services (email and applications), and shared hardware (printers, servers, image scanners, and fax machines).
What are the Benefits of a Network?
Increased Employee Productivity
When an office is connected, so are people. Ideas are shared more quickly. More informed decisions are made. Everyone moves faster. Being connected saves time. Progress can happen with fewer meetings. Data is conveniently shared without trading floppy disks. Users have access to better shared equipment. Collaboration happens. The organization is more competitive.
Reduced Communication Costs
Network-based communication such as e-mail and "instant messages" are a cost-effective alternatives to phoning and faxing, with the potential to deliver significant savings in long distance charges. The combination of the public Internet with secure "virtual private networking" VPN technology allows for office-to-office networking without costly dedicated Wide Area Network (WAN) connections, also realizing major cost savings.
Equipment Costs
Networking allows equipment — mainly printers and servers, to be shared with multiple users. Shared resources are used more often and efficiently. More users can be brought online without large additional costs. Investments in equipment benefit more workers.
Access to Resources Anytime/Anywhere Networking brings mobility. Key files, data, and services can be accessed from any place on the network. With remote access in place, one can travel or work remotely and still be connected. Access to files, data, and messages when away from the office provides employee flexibility. Users can respond to co-workers and customers quickly, from anywhere.
Why choose a wireless network?
- · Freedom—work anywhere
- · Quick, effortless installation
- · No cables to buy
- · Save cabling time and hassle
- · Easy to expand
Wireless networks are rapidly becoming more popular and coming down in price. Since they don't require cables, you can use the devices anywhere in an office or home, even out on the patio. There's no need to roll out an Ethernet network cable to each room of a house; you can network anywhere—without wires. Outside of the home, wireless networking is available in hotspots at coffee shops, businesses, airports—great when you're on the road and need to get some work done. For convenience, wireless networking is the answer.
Why choose a wired network?
- · Lower cost
- · Faster speed—up to 1000Mbps
- · Longer possible range
Wired networks have been around for years. They use the most affordable products and provide the fastest speeds of transmission. The distance between devices, such as computers, on a network is also much less restricted in wired networking—up to 300 feet with Cat 5 Ethernet cables or 1,800 feet using fiber optics. When you need to move large amounts of data at high speeds, such as professional-quality multimedia, wired networking is the most efficient way to do it.
Why You Need Backup?
An important consideration for any organization is protecting their company data through backup; for small companies this is essential. Small businesses often purchase a server computer with only a single hard disk, providing little or no protection against data loss due to system or hardware failure.
Regular backup of hard disks prevents data loss and damage caused by hard disk failures, power outages, virus infection, and many other possible computer problems. Backing up user data, Exchange mailboxes and public folders, and files on your system is vital to planning a reliable server configuration. You must back up your data so that you can restore important in formation or settings if problems occur.
Backup Types
Although the Backup Utility supports several types of backups, the three most common types of backup are explained and compared as follows:
Normal Also called a full backup. A normal backup copies all selected files and marks each as backed up. With normal backups, you need only the most recent copy of the backup file to restore all the files.
Incremental An incremental backup copies only those files that were created or changed since the last normal or incremental backup and marks files as backed up. If you implement a combination of normal and incremental backups, you must have the most recent normal backup set, as well as all the incremental backup sets, to restore your data.
Note: Incremental backups must be restored in the order they were backed up.
Differential A differential backup copies files that were created or changed since the last normal or incremental backup, but does not mark files as backed up. If you implement a combination of normal and differential backups, you must have the last normal and last differential backup sets to restore your data.
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