Network Architecture |
Network Topology |
Internet |
Peer-To-Peer |
Client-Server Network |
Each individual computers acts as both service provider the service customer. |
Computer/nodes requests services from the server |
Software installation for all computers. |
Software installation in the server only. |
Difficult to manage the resources in the network. |
Easy to manage the resources in the network (server existance facilitate the distribution of the resources) |
Less cabling cost. |
Higher cabling cost. |
Security control by their own. |
Security control by server(centralized). |