ALSO CALLED: Networks and Local Area Networks DEFINITION: A local area network (LAN) is a group of computers and associated devices that share a common communications line or wireless link. Typically, connected devices share the resources of a single processor or server within a small geographic area (for example, within an office building). Usually, the server
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LAN DEFINITION (continued): has applications and data storage that are shared in common by multiple computer users. A local area network may serve as few as two or three users (for example, in a home network) or as many as thousands of users (for example, in an FDDI network).
Major local area network technologies are:
Ethernet Token Ring FDDI
Ethernet is by far the most commonly used LAN technology. A number of corporations LAN definition sponsored by SearchNetworking.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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