Transmitting data wireless over a short distance. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct are examples of personal area networks (PANs). See Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct. In the mid-1990s, IBM's Almaden Research ...

A wide area network spans a large geographic area such as a city, state, or country. It can be private to connect parts of a business, or it can be public to connect smaller networks. The easiest way ...

A network gateway joins two networks so the devices on one network can communicate with the devices on another network.

They can also be blocked by walls. However, they are ideal for mobile devices, which can connect to a network as long as they are in the range of a wireless access point (WAP). Switches are ...

A Metropolitan Area Network, or MAN, is a series of LANs (Local Area Networks) that are interconnected through various means in a Metropolitan area such as a city and its subburbs. If a company ...

A communications network that transmits data. Essentially all networks are data networks, including local area networks (LANs), public and private wide area networks (WANs) and the Internet ...

rationale for this book was that many people are forced to learn data communications because the processes aren’t as transparent and as “plug and play” as they should be. Though these individuals ...

Other computers, like laptops, tablets and smartphones can make a wireless connection to the network. This type of connection is known as wi-fi. A LAN or Local Area Network is a group of devices ...

rationale for this book was that many people are forced to learn data communications because the processes aren't as transparent and as "plug and play" as they should be. Though these individuals ...