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3. LANs started out as narrow-range systems, but the enterprise network of today has evolved into a network of interconnected LANs.

5. A restricted range.

6. share a common transmission medium.

8. Monitors the busy/idle status of the network.

9. Buffers/device to the speed of the network

10. Transmitted data stream into frames for transmission

11. On the network

13. Access method

14. Modulation method

16. Access Methods LAN access methods: contention or noncontention. CSMA/CD

18. coaxial

19. cable

20. fiber optics

22. 802.3 Ethernet standard

23. 802.3 ETHERNET STANDARDS Fast Ethernet LAN Traffic Prioritization Gigabit Ethernet 10 Gigabit Ethernet Power over Ethernet (PoE)

25. Class 1: 4 W

26. Class 2: 7 W

29. Bridging and Switching

30. Switching Technology

32. Information transfer between the network and the server

33. Manage security on the network

34. Directly attached to the users personal computers.

38. Fault Tolerance

39. Network Management

40. Internetworking

41. Infrastructure Planning

42. Backbone Architecture