Networking Terminology

Businesses needed a solution that would successfully address the following three problem :


  • How to avoid duplication of equipment anf resources

  • How to communicate efficiently

  • How to set upand manage a network.



One early solution was creation of local-area network (LAN) standard. LAN standard provided an open set of guidelines that companies used to create network hardware and software. As a result, the equipment from different companies besame compatible. Thie allowed for stability in LAN implementations.



In a LAN system, each departement of the company is a kind of electronic island. As the use of computer in bussinesses grew, LANs become insufficient.





A new tecnology was necessary to share information efficiently and quickly within a company and between businesses. The solution was the creation of metropolitan-area networks (MANs) and Wide-area Networks (WANs).

Figure summarizes the relative size of LANs and WANs.


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