Chapter 6. The Role of Telecommunications in Networking
- Table of Contents
- Local Area Networks (LANs)
- MANs
From The Big Picture, we see that telecommunications provides a connection service (storm clouds) between networks (circles). Telecommunications provides the external connection service for joining networks across cities, provinces and countries.
Local Area Networks (LANs)
A Local Area Network is a system of computers that share resources such as disk drives, printers, data, CPU power, fax/modem, applications, etc. They usually have distributed processing, which means that there are many desktop computers distributed around the network and that there is no central processor machine (mainframe).
Location: In a building
or individual rooms or floors of buildings or nearby buildings. Can be campus wide like a college or university.
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