In the modern office environment, each worker is equipped with a personal computer with its own processor and multiple disk drives. The computer may be free-standing (very much the exception these ...

The Local Area Network (LAN) and the Wide Area Network (WAN) are both types of data networks. Their main difference is in scale, with LANs intended for communication within a room or building and WANs ...

A local-area network (LAN) connects the computer hardware in a localized area such as an office or home. Typically, LANs use wired connections to link the computers to each other and to a variety of ...

Ethernet is the most common type of local area network (LAN) technology, and it involves a hardwired connection to the internet. Ethernet comes in several varieties including Fast Ethernet, Gigabit ...

A local area network (LAN) connected to the Internet. Although there are exceptions to everything, today, almost every LAN in a home or office is connected to the Internet for access to the Web, email ...

Before Wi-Fi became ubiquitous, Ethernet was the way to link devices together. By running Ethernet cables in a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN), you could send traffic back and ...

When you use your computer on your home or office network, there's a lot happening in the background. To connect to another device on your network and use the internet, you're using two pieces of ...

In today’s health IT environment, many healthcare facilities are under pressure to improve security in order to provide greater protection for electronic protected health information (ePHI) and ...

More and more security devices being designed to communicate over local area networks (LAN) and the Internet. In smaller installations the security dealer is going to probably be responsible for ...