Peer-to-peer applications are best explained by contrasting with client/server. In client/server applications, like Lotus Notes, clients communicate with each other, but must first connect with the ...

Whenever you connect two computers together, either with cables or wirelessly, you have created a computer network. When the computers on the network can work independently of each other, it is ...

Peer-to-peer embraces the networking capabilities of the Internet. "P2P" (as dubbed by advocates) enables the sharing and direct publication of resources and also allows the unused processing ...

(1) A network of computers configured to allow certain files and folders to be shared with everyone or with selected users. Peer-to-peer networks are quite common in small offices that do not use a ...

In 1966, the United States government created the first computer network, ARPANET. The network introduced a new way of connecting computers and set the foundation for what would become the Internet.

Today’s Internet is witnessing a revolution. A revolution that strives to change one of its basic features. A revolution where network endpoints — or clients, such as desktop PCs, mobile phones, PDAs, ...

It has been a slow transition, but Skype is finalizing its move away from a peer-to-peer system to a cloud-based one. When it was first created, the Skype network was built as a decentralized ...