October 2019
Beginner
426 pages
10h 44m
English
A LAN (Figure 1.3) is a computer network that connects two or more computers in a local area. Try to understand a local area as one single room, a floor, several floors, a building, or several buildings adjacent to each other at a distance that Ethernet communication technology permits. A LAN usually utilizes a central device that uses twisted pair, coaxial, or fiber optic cables as a networking media to interconnect computers:

The next type of network that we are going to look at is the Metropolitan Area Network (MAN).Its coverage is even greater than a LAN.
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