Peer to Peer Network

Peer to Peer networking is an approach to computer networking in which all computers share equivalent responsibility for processing data. Peer-to-peer networking (also known simply as peer networking) differs from client-server networking, where certain devices have responsibility for providing or "serving" data and other devices consume or otherwise act as "clients" of those servers.

Characteristics of Peer to Peer Network:-

* Peer to Peer networking is common on small local area networks(LANs), particularly home networks.

* Both wired and wireless home networks can be configured as peer-to-peer environments.

* Computers in a peer-to-peer network run the same networking protocols

and software. Peer networks devices are often situated physically near one another, however, utilize the internet and are geographically dispersed worldwide.

* Home networks that use broadband routers are hybrid peer-to-peer and client-server environments The router provides centralized internet connection sharing, but files, printer, and other resource sharing are managed directly between the local computers involved.