What is network account management?

Network account management is a very broad term used to describe the careful administration of an organizations closed, or public domain. A network is simply a series of computer that are able to exchange information. The internet is a network. Networks can take the form of a selling tools, information gathering and storage or just a communication pipeline. For example, you have used e-mail right? Well, email uses what is known as a "email client". This can be Outlook, Yahoo mail and so on. When you send mail, you are using a network of FTP, which are file transfer protocol servers (telnet), to send the mail. You connect to the server to send the mail and whoever gets the mail connects to the same server to read the message. Simple right?





Now for this system to work all the time, someone has to manage it. This is one form of network management. Now if you were a small business and could not afford to build your own network like all the big email guys, you would hire another company to build and manage the account. Let's say you wanted to sell stuff online. Well, this is pretty complex and most people do not know how to set something like this up. So, you hire someone, pay them a bunch of money and they do it for you. In this case, your network account manager would be known as your gateway service provider. They would communicate with your gateway merchant account holder to manage funds through the website. If this all sounds way to complicated, it's not really. A network account manager is simply the person that looks over and manages a bunch of computers to make sure they are sending data where it needs to go. Hope this clarifies a bit.