Client-server networking refers to a computer networking model that uses both client hardware devices and servers, each with ...

This model, with the application-layer VPN functioning as a proxy, enforcing authentication and policy before letting the data streams reach the application server, protects private networks.

eWEEK 30: Client/server applications were heavily promoted in the 1990s as an effective way to harness the power of PCs connected to corporate networks. But the model just wasn’t scalable.

You can see applications of dividing a software's function between servers and clients all over the technological world. Multiplayer computer games use a centralized game server to track all the ...