What Is the Intranet?
An Intranet is by definition any local area network that communicates with the same protocols as the Internet. Though the term Intranet is usually reserved for larger local area networks that are connected to some form of centralized storage. These Intranets are economic solutions for businesses and large enterprise network solutions.
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History
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Private Intranets originally began as solutions for large businesses to avoid the cost of sending large amounts of data over expensive Internet connections.
Function
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Intranets function primarily as a private version of the Internet. Large corporations use them to connect large work forces, production data, and customers together over Internet-like communications.
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Features
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Due to Intranets being limited by only their local area network bandwidths they achieve much higher speeds of transfer. Today's high level Intranets can easily enjoy connectivity measures in hundreds of Gigabits per second as compared to the public Internet's common connections speeds that measure only between one to two hundred Megabits per second and cost many thousands of dollars a month to access.
Benefits
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Private Intranets provide a means for workforce communications and data access. Intranets commonly increase productivity, company interactivity, and above all lower the cost of business communications.
Considerations
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While it is entirely possible for a non-business user to create a Intranet it is highly uneconomic. The networking equipment involved is not commonly sold to small organizations as they haven't the need or initial funds to create the hardware network.
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