
Students Guide to Information
Technology
Activity
Local area networks provide a number of useful facilities besides those
mentioned above. You probably have one or more LANs in operation in
your college. If
so,
find out about these facilities- e.g. from any handouts
produced for users, and make
a
list of them for your course notes.
Question
3 Would a LAN be of value to you in your role
as
youth club leader?
Circuit-switched networks
When a very large number of devices wish to communicate with each
other, a circuit-switched network may be more appropriate than a
LAN. In this type of network, each device is connected to a switching
centre, whic ...