Devices and Components Commonly Found in the LAN Domain

The LAN Domain’s primary responsibility is to provide your users with the ability to connect to and share resources. To meet this goal, the LAN Domain contains four main types of components. These components work together to allow users to share resources on the network and reduce the need for multiple dedicated resources, such as printers, file storage systems, and backup devices. The four main types of ­components in the LAN Domain are as follows:

  • Connection media—This includes the adapters and wires (sometimes) that connect components together in the LAN Domain. Not all connection methods use wires. Wireless devices use radio waves to transmit data instead of wires. So connection media ...

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