What is Intranet?

An intranet is a private network that is contained within an enterprise. It may consist of many interlinked local area networks and also use leased lines in the WAN. Typically, an intranet includes connections through one or more gateway computers to the outside Internet.
The main purpose of an intranet is to share company information and computing resources among employees.
General looks like a private version of the Internet.An intranet uses HTTp,TCP/IP and other Internet protocols.With tunneling, companies can send private messages through the public network, using the public network with special encryption/decryption and other security safeguards to connect one part of their intranet to another.

Typically, larger enterprises allow users within their intranet to access the public Internet through firewall servers that have the ability to screen messages in both directions so that company security is maintained.

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