You have been asked to design the entire cabling system for a medical instrument manufacturer's new central warehouse. The company already has three buildings within two city blocks, and the warehouse will be its fourth building. Currently, the buildings run on separate networks, but the company would like to be able to exchange data among them. For example, the Quality Control Department in building 1 would like to be able to access servers in the Research Department in building 2. In addition, the Sales Department in building 3 wants to conduct video training sessions for its representatives
in the field via the internet. Next door, in the warehouse, 50 shipping and packing personnel in the Fulfillment Department will be riding up and down the aisles on forklifts pulling inventory off the shelves on a daily basis.
What kind of transmission media would you recommend for each different building
and department of the medical instrument company and why?
What type of media would you recommend using to connect the buildings and why?
Finally, what kind of media should the company request from its ISP for connecting
the corporate WAN to the Internet?
It depends...
1. Technology - WiFi ranges are commonly some "tens of metres" to small hundreds, Ethernet can be built over tens of metres to hundreds of metres using copper cable to hundreds of metres using fibre optics.
2. Terminology - a LAN is commonly a single building or a small number of buildings. A large collection of buildings such as a College/university/factory complex is often named as a "Campus Area Network", a "CAN".
Local Area Network
Generally, a local area network's distance includes only several hundred yards
LAN- Local area network
That's called a network - If they're all in the same building it's a local area network (LAN) - If the computers are spread over a number of buildings independent from each other, that's a wide area network (or WAN)Network
LAN stands for Local Area Network & WAN stands for Wide Area Network.
Local Area Network
the term LAN stands for "local area network". this type of network is one that is usually connected to another network through a "WAN" or "Wide Area Network". A good example of this is the wireless or wired network in your house is a LAN. A corporate network of any major size has many LAN segments connected to one another via a WAN connection. As well, the internet is generally considered the largest WAN.
A LAN or local area network is a computer network that includes computers in the local area. At my work location, there have been local area networks that serve the building. About 12 years ago, they connected our local area network to 5 or 6 other of our buildings located a mile or two away, and it was not local, anymore: It was then a wide area network, or WAN.
Size and scope. A LAN is a Local Area Network, and is usually confined to a single building. A MAN is a Metropolitan Area Network and would cover multiple buildings in a city area. A WAN is a Wide Area Network and can cover any size geographical area.
It stands for Local Area Network
customise a local area network
1. How might a distributed database designed for a local area network differ from one designed for a wide area network?