local area network
noun
: a network of personal computers in a small area (such as an office) for sharing resources (such as a printer) or exchanging data
called also LAN
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Its Intelligent Edge segment offers wired and wireless local area networks, campus, branch, and data center switching, and others.
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Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 19 Apr. 2025
Data Fluidity In The Modern Enterprise In the 1990s, data began moving off dedicated, isolated hardware boxes and onto local area networks.
—Russ Kennedy, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Ethernet gave rise to local area networks (LANs), which by the end of the 1970s let users share files within homes or offices.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Nov. 2024
History of Ethernet First created in 1973 by a group of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) engineers, including Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs, Ethernet allowed people to connect multiple computers in a local area network (LAN).
—Simon Hill, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2023
For example, it is currently engaged in trying to push its own standards for software encryption and wireless local area networks as global International Organization for Standardization standards.
—Elizabeth Economy, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2010
Because someone could unsuspectingly infect a machine this way, letting the worm proliferate over local area networks, experts feared that the malware had perhaps gone wild across the world.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2013
Additionally, place administrative systems in separate virtual local area networks (VLANs) and block all unauthorized traffic from network devices destined for non-administrative VLANs.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2023
Create VLANs Creating a virtual local area network is the best practice for designing a secure and efficient network infrastructure.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
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Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 19 Apr. 2025
Data Fluidity In The Modern Enterprise In the 1990s, data began moving off dedicated, isolated hardware boxes and onto local area networks.
—Russ Kennedy, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Ethernet gave rise to local area networks (LANs), which by the end of the 1970s let users share files within homes or offices.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Nov. 2024
History of Ethernet First created in 1973 by a group of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) engineers, including Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs, Ethernet allowed people to connect multiple computers in a local area network (LAN).
—Simon Hill, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2023
For example, it is currently engaged in trying to push its own standards for software encryption and wireless local area networks as global International Organization for Standardization standards.
—Elizabeth Economy, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2010
Because someone could unsuspectingly infect a machine this way, letting the worm proliferate over local area networks, experts feared that the malware had perhaps gone wild across the world.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2013
Additionally, place administrative systems in separate virtual local area networks (VLANs) and block all unauthorized traffic from network devices destined for non-administrative VLANs.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2023
Create VLANs Creating a virtual local area network is the best practice for designing a secure and efficient network infrastructure.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
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“Local area network.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/local%20area%20network. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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