| LAN Architecture and Protocols |
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| Sam Kirtman |
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| Personal Computer LAN Backend and Storage Area Netowrks Charactoristics High Data Rate High Speed Interface Distributed Access Limited Distance Limited Number of Devices High-Speed Office Networks Backbone LANs Drawbacks Reliability Capacity Cost Factory LANs High Capacity Ability to handle a variety of data traffic Large geographic extent High Reliability Ability to control and specify tranmission delays |
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| LAN Configuration |
| Tiered LANs Personal Computer and Workstations Server Farms Mainframes Evolution Scenario Top-down Design Strategy Centralized decsion because it impacts the enitre operation or comapny Advantage Built-in compatibility to interconnect the users |
| Twistee Pair Coaxial Cable Optical Fiber Structured Cabling |
| Guided Transmission Media |
| LAN Protocol Architecture |
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| IEEE 802 Reference Model |
| Logical Link Control |
| Medium Access Control |
| For a communications network, the method of determining which station has access to the transmission medium at any time. |
| Logical Link Control (LLC) is a common link protocol for all the LANs. LLC specifies the mechanisms for stations acroos the medium and for controlling the exchange of data between users. Unaknowledged connectionless service Connection-mode service Aknowledged connectionless service |
