Two key characteristics of a scalable network are flexibility and performance. Flexibility allows the network to adapt to increased loads or changes in demand without significant reconfiguration or downtime. Performance ensures that as more devices or users are added, the network maintains efficient data transmission speeds and low latency. Together, these characteristics enable a network to grow seamlessly while sustaining high service quality.
easy expansion
modularity
Redundant hardware provides enhanced reliability. Fault tolerance is a measure of reliability. The longer the MTBF, the greater the reliability.
Scalable
* Ability to handle growing amount of work * Capability of a system to increase total throughput under an increased load when resources are added * A scalable system is that whose performance improves after adding hardware, proportionally to the capacity added * A routing protocol is considered scalable with respect to network size, if the size of the necessary routing table on each node grows as O(log N), where N is the number of nodes in the network.
charactoristics of computer network
Scalable
It represents the electrical characteristics of individual network components, but does not provide any information pertaining to the network connections.
Traffic engineering Intserv and DiffServ Quality of Service (QoS) Creation of scalable VPN
A LAN driver, or a network card driver enables the operating system to communicate with the network card and transmit and receive packets of information across the network or LAN. It provides a "bridge" between the operating system (software) and the network card (hardware). This kind of layering provides a scalable architecture, where a single operating system can work with many network cards and vice-versa.
You can share every folder on a computer network, you just have to edit the share characteristics.
simplification of management and troubleshootingelimination of the need for wiring closetsincreased fault tolerance of the networkMore scalable it allows you to replicate the the design elements as the networks grows.