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Flashcards - computer network
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- 1LANLocal Area Network: The most common. Located at one side( a single building or several buildings in proximity)
- 2WANWide Area Network: For organisations that may have several branches (i.e banks,college / university campuses). For all to access the same data source.
- 3MANMetro Area Network: Usually covers a network within the same city. Its coverage is between a LAN and WAN.
- 4PANPersonal Area Network: Set up privately for a few people to connect a small number of devices together. Example= phone to a car audio system for hands free / PC to a phone ./ laptop to a portable printer- maybe tradesmen.
- 5VPNVirtual Private Network: Two physical networks connected by another connection generally the internet.
- 6Coaxialxx
- 7Twisted Pairxx
- 8Fiber optic cablexx
- 9Wireless Connectionxx
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- Cambridge IGCSE Computer Science Flashcards on Flashcards - computer network, created by 11.hodgkinson on 18/09/2015.
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