Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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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