Solaris™ 8 Network Administrator Certification Training Guide

INTRODUCTION

Business and personal communication has been significantly impacted in the latter part of the 20th century by networks. This one word, network, signifies the single most important concept that helped usher in the computer revolution. This past decade, the last of the 20th century, has witnessed the evolution of the Internet and the information exchange it has energized. Internetworking gave birth to a completely new industry known as information technology. High-end UNIX servers have been at the heart of Internet services. Among these, Solaris has always been an important Internet platform. Many of the 24 × 7 Internet companies rely on services provided by Solaris servers.

In simple terms, a computer network refers to interconnected ...