How do users benefit for the concept of a transparent network?

How do users benefit for the concept of a transparent network?

Transparency in Networking:

Network Transparency is situation in which user is allowed to access resource where he doesn’t know weather he is using resources from local machine or remote machine.



Types of Transparency:

Databases

Firewalls



Distribution Transparency:

In DDBMS (Distributed Database Management Systems) transparency hides all the complexities which allow user to think that they are working on a single centralized system.



In firewall technology transparency is defined at Application Layer, Internet layer or at IP address.



We need Network Transparency to protect the data from unauthorized users.



User can access shared files by using the distributed file system protocols.



NFS(Network File System) is a protocol used for distributed file systems developed by Sun Microsystems. It allows user to access files through network like local storage. Client and server can access storage by using its predefined protocols.

It is easy way to access data because you don’t need any additional storage you simply can access data through network access.

How do users benefit for the concept of a transparent network?

Hello,

Transparency in networking is defined as the ability of a networking method to perform in a way that is not visible to the user. A few types of transparency are access transparency, location transparency, and concurrent transparency. The essential shared quality that makes them all transparent is that the user has no awareness of how the system is accessing or managing information and data. Distribution transparency is location transparency which specifically means that the user is not aware of where a resource is physically located on a distributed system. The importance of this method or practice is that it allows for ease-of-use and it is also a bit of a security measure. It is also a part of system stability. Within firewall technology, transparency is defined as the client targeting the real IP address of the server.

The Sun Microsystem network file system is a distributed file system which allows a user to access files over a network with the same ease as accessing local files. Those files are accessible from many points making file sharing very easy, but this also presents a security issue.