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The Virtual Private Network - VPN - has attracted the attention of many organizations looking to both expand their networking capabilities and reduce their costs.

The VPN can be found in workplaces and homes, where they allow employees to safely log into company networks. Telecommuters and those who travel often find a VPN a more convenient way to stay connected to the corporate intranet.

Server operatin systems are designed from the ground up to provide platforms for multi-user, frequently business-critical, networked applications. As such, the focus of such operating systems tends to be security, stability and collaboration, rather than user interface.

A server/LAN consists of one or more server machines on which shared files and programs reside and many client machines where people do their work. The LAN server machines are usually big and fast because they must serve many users, while the client machines need only be fast enough for one person to use at a time.

Online help and Complaint handling is a critical part of any Information system. A complaint management system provides a closed-loop mechanism that allows you to implement effective, timely resolutions to network or services issues.

Almost everyone who has an Internet connection has at some time downloaded a large file, or run a peer-to-peer file sharing program, and noticed that Web pages start to load very slowly, or fail to load.

The reason is, of course, that the capacity (or bandwidth) of their Internet connection is limited, like the size of a highway, and when one tries to send too much information down it, more than its capacity, a virtual traffic jam results. This is also known as network congestion.

To keep your Internet connection working fast and smoothly, you must control your use of bandwidth, to stay below the maximum capacity of the network link. To control something, you must be able to measure it.

Microsoft Windows Net-Meeting is changing the way people communicate and work together on the Internet and on corporate intranets. With its rich set of audio, video, and data conferencing features, NetMeeting has proven its effectiveness for management groups, developers, and user communities worldwide.

NetMeeting is a powerful tool that allows real-time communication and collaboration over the Internet or corporate intranet. From a computer running Windows users can communicate over a network with real-time voice and video technology. Users can work together on virtually any Windows-based program, exchange or mark up graphics on an electronic whiteboard, transfer files, or use the text-based Chat program.

Intranet combines workflow, information, and communications features in a flexible, configurable solution to deliver powerful business management. Great for mid- and large-sized companies, Intranet can be used to address hundreds of business problems, as diverse as project management, sales, IT management and more.

Intranet applications save your firm time and money by making it easy to organize and share the everyday information of business: client lists, sales numbers, document drafts, data of any kind. It's a powerful boost to productivity, yet refreshingly affordable for team-sized budgets. With Intranet no one is ever out of the loop, in the dark or up a creek with last month's spreadsheet.

Establishing the right kind of network for your organization is important to make the most of your time and money. While peer-to-peer network is often a good choice for small networks, in an environment with more than 10-15 computers, a peer-to-peer network begins to become more trouble than it is worth: your computers start to slow down, you can never find the file you are looking for, and security is non-existent. If this is happening in your organization, it is probably time to switch to a client-server network by bringing in a dedicated server to handle the load. The server is called "dedicated" because it is optimized to serve requests from the "client" computers quickly.

An organization can have many systems running on different platforms.

Some might be using Windows systems whereas some systems might be running on Mac or Linux platforms. Connecting those systems to each other and sharing of resources can become necessary sometimes or on a number of occassions.

Remote access is the ability to get access to a computer or a network from a remote distance. In corporations, people at branch offices, telecommuters, and people who are travelling may need access to the corporation's network. Home users get access to the Internet through remote access to an Internet service provider (ISP). Dial-up connection through desktop, notebook, or handheld computer modem over regular telephone lines is a common method of remote access. Remote access is also possible using a dedicated line between a computer or a remote local area network and the "central" or main corporate local area network.

A dedicated line is more expensive and less flexible but offers faster data rates. Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a common method of remote access from branch offices since it combines dial-up with faster data rates.