ABSTRACT
Networks have evolved to become the mainstay of corporate America. Millions of personal computers are connected to network servers running applications ranging from personal productivity to corporate accounting, yet the demands on the network continue to increase. These demands typically take two forms. The first is the availability of application software specifically tailored to an organization’s operations. The second is the need to run processor-intensive applications in a personal computing environment. Both of these situations require increased horsepower from individual computing components, and in some cases the required horsepower just isn’t available from networked components.
