About Popular protocols advantages, benefits and disadvantages

Common Protocols of Network

Protocols play a vital part in an network environment now in this article we are going to discuss shortly about the list of protocols used in an network environment.

NETBEUI Protocol

It’s a transport layer protocol developed by NETBIOS networks. This type of protocol is not routable because of the fact it does nt have a role to play in an enterprise environment, But it is the most fastest protocol, Its really ideal and provide faster transmission the only disadvantage iin NETBEUI is it cannot be used on routed networks.

Advantages of NETBEUI

1. Speed
2. Protecting from errors
3. Easy to implement
4. Reduce Memory

Disadvantages of NETBEUI

1. Not routable
2. Not compatible with cross platform applications
3. Less troubleshooting tools

TCP /IP

It is the most popular protocol used in the Networking whether it is a small or larger network people trusts this protocol. This gained popularity due to the exponential growth of Internet.

Advantages of TCP/IP protocol

The Nature tcp/ip protocol quite adaptable and it gives Cross Platform support

1. Span Wide areas
2. Fantastic routing capabilities
3. Supports SNMP,DHCP,WINS protocol

AppleTalk

Appletalk is another protocol which is used to communicate with MAC computers. It helps to store and access files on Mac clients on NT server, printers. You need to install Macintosh before you install apple talk protocol, It s only available from an NTFS partition

APPC
The Advanced Program-to-Program Communication (APPC) protocol, it has been developed by IBM, its p2p protocol used in IBM’s Systems Network

X.25

It’s a wide area protocol it is mainly used in packet switching networks.It helps to connect remote computers to mainframes. It was created to connect remote terminals to mainframes. This protocol is very popular in Europe.

HDLC

HDLC is a flexible protocol which is based on IBM synchronous data link control and it can support half or full duplex transmission, circuit- or packet switched networks, it can support peer to peer, client/server network topologies, all the transmissions are either from cable or wireless.

XNS
This protocol was created by XEROX in order to facilitate Ethernet networks, this is Novell’s IPX/SPX based, it is rarely used in today networks.

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