Discuss the role of network within the organizations and the resource implications of networks?

Answer 1

Role of the networks within different organizations

Nowadays networks become major data transmission in the world. Networks typically involve collaboration. For invention and innovation, networks have become the means to collaboration, helping diffuse knowledge, reproduce creativity, and pull together the resources needed to undertake research. Networks have become easier than ever to establish and join. The internet, the Web and telecommunications have allowed the creation of networks for most every social and economic activity in existence today. Helping this dynamic is the rapid decline in the cost of networking during the past four decades, which helped provide easier access on a global scale. So the network system is very important for the different types of organizations. The role of the network within the organizations is as follows.

· The network helps them to increase their employees' productivity

In the network environment when the employees are working they can quickly share their ideas because nowadays the organizations are more competitive.

· It helps to reduce office equipments costs

In the network system all the equipments in the organization are using by multiple users. So, an equipment uses by multiple employees at a time, so no need to spend lots of money to buy equipments for all the departments in the organization.

· It helps to access to Resources anytime or anywhere

With remote access in place, one can travel or work remotely and still be connected. Access to files, data, and messages when away from the office provides employee flexibility. Users can respond to co-workers and customers quickly, from anywhere.

· It helps to increase Storage Capacity

As there is more than one computer on a network which can easily share files, the issue of storage capacity gets resolved to a great amount. An individual computer might fall due to the less storage memory, but when many computers are on a network, memory of different computers can be used in such case. One can also design a storage server on the network in order to have a huge storage capacity.

· It helps to reduce Communication Costs

In the network environment the network-based communication such as e-mail and instant messenger services are cost-effective alternatives to phoning and faxing, with the potential to deliver significant savings in long distance charges. The combination of the public Internet with secure VPN technology allows for office-to-office networking without costly dedicated Wide Area Network (WAN) connections, also realizing major cost savings.

· It helps to manage the software and resources centrally

· It helps to allow network versions of software for their speedy installation on workstations from the file server

· It helps to share software amongst different user

· And also the data is most valuable thing to the organizations. So in the network environment, all the data of the branches of the organization are managing centrally with high security such as authentication and providing password to the data and so on. So, these are giving much security to their data.

· It helps them to connect and sharing all the computers in the organization

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naveen ahangama (esoft)

sri lanka