Switching is the most valuable asset of computer networking. Every time in computer network you access the internet or another computer network outside your immediate location, or your messages are sent through a maze of transmission media and connection devices. The mechanism for exchange of information between different computer networks and network segments is called switching in Networking. On the other words we can say that any type signal or data element directing or Switching toward a particular hardware address or hardware pieces.

Computer Networks fall into three classes regarding the size, distance and the structure namely: LAN (Local Area Network), MAN (Metropolitan Area Network), WAN (Wide Area Network). Before we discussing about type of network we can discuss about what is a network.

What is Network?

In the today world, Two devices are in network if a process in one device is able to exchange information with a process in another device. Networks are known as a medium of connections between nodes (set of devices) or computers. A network is consist of group of computer systems, servers, networking devices are linked together to share resources, including a printer or a file server. The connections is established by using either cable media or wireless media.

There are different types of communications connection in existence between two endpoints., Home networks, and the Internet is the one of the most commonly used examples. Many type of devices are and several different methods are used connecting to these type of network architectures.

There are different advantages and disadvantages to this type of network architectures. Connecting computers to a these type of networks, we requires some networking framework to create the connections. The two different computer network connection types are getting discussed in this page are Point-to-Point Connection and multipoint connection. The main difference between them we can getting discussed with the help of below definition.

IEEE 802.4 Token Bus : In token bus Computer network station must have possession of a token before it can transmit on the computer network. The IEEE 802.4 Committee has defined token bus standards as broadband computer networks, as opposed to Ethernet's baseband transmission technique. Physically, the token bus is a linear or tree-shape cable to which the stations are attached.

There are many type of Serves in the Computer Networking World. Server is a machine, that can be design for interconnecting the machines with each other.Many type of the functions are performed by the servers to facilitate different uses. Let us discussed first, what is a server before getting discuss about type of servers.