It is possible to connect all company's computers and devices each other in order to enable quicker information exchange, build up workgroups and reduce expenses on sharable devices (printers, fax, modems...) and on hardware devices (hardisks...). It is extremely important during network planning to keep in mind three elements :
Study, design and integration of a local area network with the internet, which is made easer by the availability of cheap XDSL lines. Configuration is assisted from the setup of the phone line till router configuration and firewall, local messaging and antivirus setup.

Network must be set up ad hoc for the specific user keeping in mind his present and future needs. This implies an attentive choice of the kind of network to design and of the hardware to setup (lan cards, hub, switch or routers and workstations kinds).

Furthermore the scalability is needed to setup a long life network preventing future slow downs or collisions in case of an improved work and amount of computed data; thus primary is correct choice of Servers, cables, cards (10 Mb/s, 100Mb/s, Gigabit, Wireless)

 

NatSoft offers 4 typologies of network .     LAN     -   Local Area Network   VLAN   -   Virtual Local Area Network     WAN    -   Wide Area Network   WLAN  -   Wireless Local Area Network

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