Client/server computing was a technology ahead of its time—and more importantly ahead of the enterprise network infrastructure capabilities of the time.

Client-server applications were built for local area networks using chatty, proprietary protocols that worked in a local-area network but were inappropriate for the long distances required by the ...

In a client-server model, resources are connected to dedicated servers that centralize storage, printing, backups and more services. Other computers on the network, called clients, connect to the ...

Client-server networks are best suited to organisations with many computers, or to situations where many computers need access to the same information. Many schools use this type of model.

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This computer becomes the ‘server’ in the client/server arrangement, and once configured it allows access to all the FANUC CNC systems that are on the plant network. FASConnect is a software program ...