INTRANET

An intranet is a private computer network that uses Internet protocols, network connectivity to securely share part of an organization's information or operations with its employees. Sometimes the term refers only to the most visible service, the internal website. The same concepts and technologies of the Internet such as clients and servers running on the Internet protocol suite are used to build an intranet.

HTTP and other Internet protocols are commonly used as well, such as FTP. There is often an attempt to use Internet technologies to provide new interfaces with corporate "legacy" data and information systems. Briefly, an intranet can be understood as "a private version of the Internet," or as a version of the Internet confined to an organization.


The term first appeared in print on April 19, 1995, in Digital News & Review in an article authored by technical editor Stephen LawtonIt is the companies’ secure private network. Where external users are not allowed to use internal resoures.An intranet is basically a network that is local to a company.

In other words, users from within this company can find all of their resources without having to go outside of the company. An intranet can include LANs, private WANs and Man’s, and SANs. To access a company INTRANET through INTERNET, you should be a member of the company, means you should have username & password for accessing company's local web application