what is the advantages and disadvantages of intranet?

[wilbasket23]

hello

can anyone explain to me what is intranet

what are the advantages and disadvantages

[Force Flow]

An intranet is a LAN (Local Area Netowk). Some of the advantages are that the computers and servers can communicate much faster than they could over the internet and that only one outside connection is needed.

[DragonNOA1]

A network based on TCP/IP protocols (an internet) belonging to an organization, usually a corporation, accessible only by the organization's members, employees, or others with authorization. An intranet's Web sites look and act just like any other Web sites, but the firewall surrounding an intranet fends off unauthorized access.
Like the Internet itself, intranets are used to share information. Secure intranets are now the fastest-growing segment of the Internet because they are much less expensive to build and manage than private networks based on proprietary protocols.

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[Jaggannath]

intranets are also the bomb for gaming with mates!!!! I love them
But they're also much faster than dial-up, and if you're accessing a page someone else has already accessed I think it can actually sometimes just take the image that person left on the intranet server, speeding things up considerably