Intranets
You
can deploy the technologies developed for the Internet on a local
area network (LAN) to disseminate information, such as updates to a
catalog or information from a database within the LAN. To do this,
you must install Internet server software on one of the servers on
the LAN.
What Is
an Intranet?
An
intranet
is a
network, internal to an organization, which uses Internet technology
to improve internal communications, publish information, or develop
applications. To use the free or relatively inexpensive Internet
applications on an intranet, each of the computers on the intranet
must support TCP/IP. An intranet may be private, in which case it is
not connected to the Internet, or public, in which case it is
connected to the Internet.