LAN
What LAN means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Covers a small area such as one building or campus, for example a school where computers, printers and a file server are linked by the school's own cabling and wireless access points.
A network that covers a small geographical area such as one school, office or home, with hardware usually owned and managed by the organisation.
Topics that use LAN
- Networks and topologies (OCR GCSE)
- Networks (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Bandwidth
- Mesh topology
- Star topology
- WAN
- Addressing at different layers
- Bus topology
- Central management and access
- Cloud computing
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