All departmental LANs are connected to the campus Gigabit Ethernet backbone as subnets of CTNET and as a result have access to all the facilities in the central host computer systems. LANs can be defined as the interconnection of computers and peripherals within a restricted geographical region, and they can be distinguished, primarily based on their topology and the communication media employed to interconnect the equipment. There are so several distinct forms of personal computer networks in existence, it can be tough to comprehend the variations involving them, especially the ones with very equivalent-sounding names. The connection of two or a lot more LANs more than any distance is referred to as a wide area network (WAN).

1 of the benefits of networks like PAN and LAN is that they can be kept entirely private by restricting some communications to the connections inside the network. This localized manage gives greater … Continue reading >>>