Network software has firmly entered the life of the 21st century. What features does it provide to ordinary users? How is the organization of interaction between different people? What equipment is used for this? Here is an incomplete list of issues that will be addressed in the article.
Capabilities
What gives network software in terms of organizing collective activities? You can’t describe everything at a time. To start, let's focus on the possibilities of exchanging information in global and local networks:- Email.
- Newsgroups.
- Conversations over the Internet.
- Teleconferencing.
- Newsletter.
- Real-time communication tools (which can transmit text, sound and images), as well as collaborate with other applications.
- Video conferencing.
All this is used to conduct personal correspondence, work with information resources, send out data, send necessary files and notify about news.
Used means
Speaking about the capabilities of network software for organizing collective activities, it is necessary to pay attention to the software used. So, for communication over the Internet, mail servers play an important role. This is the name of special programs that forward messages between subscribers' mailboxes. Compose, send and display them to the user helps the email client.A network forum can also be used to organize collective activities, which is organized in order to conduct discussions and exchange news of a certain direction. For urgent meetings, you can use video conferencing. They help organize a lot of different software. The most famous are Skype and Raidcall. But all this is only a surface of possibilities. So, large enterprises are interested in creating their own local area networks. And as a reasonable addition - a separate line of communication. Therefore, let's focus on the technical features of the implementation of such needs.
What is network software?
This is an important addition to any business. The capabilities of network software allow the organization to provide collective access to information and computing resources of the network, dynamically distributing them to increase the efficiency of data processing and optimally load hardware. It is considered a good manners rule to have a prepared response plan in case of failure of individual pieces of equipment. Drawing an analogy, we can recall the earth's crust. The organization of network software is such that some work at a higher level, the other focuses on the hardware. But everything interacts as a whole. In this case, the following software categories can be distinguished:- General software. It is created by the basic applications of individual computers that are part of the network.
- Special software. It is created by application applications that reflect the specifics of the subject area for the user when the management task is implemented.
- System network software. It is a set of tools that support and coordinate all the resources of a computer network as a single system.
Operating Systems
Usually they mean software that is responsible for performing basic functions on a computer. On the network, they act as the foundation for organizing an environment of collective activity. So, operating systems, thanks to their components, provide:
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The capabilities of network software for an organization require careful configuration and a specific working methodology. So, it is necessary to take care of the timing and priority of receiving information by subscribers, distributing the list of tasks to be solved among all computers in the network, as well as assign priority degrees of implementation and, if necessary, change the configuration of the computer. Operational management allows you to receive and process information about the origin and goals of the processes, perform the necessary tasks and collect data about the work. In this case, the operating system acts as a dispatcher. It monitors the opening and closing of files, manages the used memory, maintains programs and protects them.Networking features
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What should be the network software? The organization of collective activity is only in favor of working at a speed that is the maximum possible. Of great importance in this is multithreading. The essence of this process is quite complicated, but we will deal with it. So, there is a microprocessor that runs at a high speed, measured in small units of time - beats per second. They are performed regardless of the presence of any task. Therefore, the processor often runs idle. To minimize this, the device identifies several individual components that are involved in certain areas of action. By changing their size, you can influence the qualitative aspect of the team. So, bookkeeping, for example, needs to constantly receive data from the local network about available resources and finished products.Whereas the staff of auxiliary workers need access to it only to compile reports on the work done.