Telecommunications Essentials: The Complete Global Source for Communications Fundamentals, Data Networking and the Internet, and Next-Generation Networks

Chapter 8. Local Area Networking

This entire book uses terminology that comes from the domain of local area networking, and in this chapter, you'll become familiar with the basics of local area network (LAN) components the history of LANs, the key issues in the various architectures, issues related to LAN interconnection and internetworking, and trends in enterprise networks.