Computer Networking

Cards (17)

  • Network
    It is defined as two or more computers connected to share resources. It refers to any interconnected group or system that shares information.
  • PAN
    Personal Are Network
  • Personal Are Network
    composed of personal devices like a cellphone and notebook computer, communicating at close range at least about 20-30 feet
  • LAN
    Local Are Network
  • Local Area Network
    It is used for workstations, servers, printers, and other devices to communicate and share resources and covers a small local area such as office, home, other building, or small group of building.
  • WLAN
    Wireless Local Area Network
  • Wireless LAN
    covers a limited geographical are and other places where networking cables are difficult to install, such as outdoors, in public places, and in homes that are not wired for networks.
  • CAN
    Campus Area Network
  • Campus Area Network
    A network made up of an interconnection of local area network within a limited geographical area. It is also a form of a metropolitan area network, specific to an academic setting.
  • MAN
    Metropolitan Area Network
  • Metropolitan Area Network
    A network that can cover a large campus or city.
  • WAN
    Wide Area Network
  • Wide Area Network
    It is made up of many smaller networks and covers a large geographical area.
  • GAN
    Global Area Network
  • Global Area Network
    It is no common definition and its specification is in development by several groups.
  • VPN
    Virtual Private Network
  • Virtual Private Network
    A computer network in which some of the links between nodes are carried by open conncetions or virtual circuits in some larger network instead of by phisical wires.