Resource Sharing through a Network

In addition to exchanging information, a network enables you to share resources. Sharing of resources enables you to make applications, equipment, and data of a computer available to other computers on the network. Additionally, resource sharing facilitates better utilization of resources. For instance, you do not need to attach expensive hardware resources, such as printers and fax machines, to each computer. Instead, these resources can be attached to a single computer and made available to other computers in a network