Basic elements & Networking

Computer networks share common devices, functions, and what features including servers, and other hardware and software resources?

Network diameter means: number of channels per node?

Network Operating Systems is: a program that runs on computers and servers, and allows the computers to communicate over the network?

Indirect interconnects are: Nodes connected directly using static point-to-point links.

Intermediary devices are: Devices that give network access to the attached end devices and transport the messages.

A topology is a physical connection of devices on the network.

Hub: data that file servers provide to clients such as data files, printer access programs and e-mail.

Which are the basics types in which network topologies are categorized?

A Bus Topology is: every device has extactly two neighbors for communication purposes.

Clients are computers that access and use the network and shared network resources. Client computers are basically the customers(users) of the network.