ETWORK ARCHITECTURE: TIERS OF CLIENT SERVER ARCHITECTURES

Abstract

This paper examined network architecture: tiers of client server architectures. Network architecture has to do with the design of a network. The network architecture determines the physical components and the configuration to be used. Client-Server architecture is an architectural deployment style that describes the separation of functionality into layers with each segment being a tier that can be located on a physically separate computer. They evolved through the component-oriented approach, generally using platform specific methods for communication instead of a message-based approach. This architecture has different usages with different applications. It can be used in web applications and distributed applications. The two tier and N-tier client/server architectures are discussed and the criteria for selecting a given network architecture is also examined in this paper.