A virtual local area network is a logical subnetwork that groups a collection of devices from different physical LANs. Large business computer networks often set up VLANs to re-partition a network for ...

The Local Area Network (LAN) and the Wide Area Network (WAN) are both types of data networks. Their main difference is in scale, with LANs intended for communication within a room or building and WANs ...

Call it NAC (Cisco’s Network Admission Control) or, well, NAC (network access control), or even NAP (Microsoft’s Network Access Protection). Any way you refer to it, these schemes for shutting out ...

Corporate local area networks are typically large and complex, requiring intense planning and ongoing support. A corporate LAN facilitates communication and data sharing for the company, and the ...

At Security Field Day, Nile delivered a message that challenges decades of enterprise networking orthodoxy: the traditional Local Area Network ...

Ethernet switch vendors who offer combined or unified LAN and WLAN gear say the ultimate goal is to get wired and wireless network technologies to appear as a single network access layer. However, ...

Whenever we work on multiple systems, we prefer sending files over the connection. After all being on the same LAN connection makes our work easier, file transfer is what makes our tasks difficult.

If you're looking to up the privacy across your LAN, it's time you considered thinking bigger than just a single computer.