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local area network

noun

  1. a system for linking private telecommunications equipment, as in a building or cluster of buildings.
  2. Computers. a system for linking personal computers and workstations with each other in order to share data, devices, programs, etc.: usually confined to one office, building, or home. Compare network ( def 3 ).


local area network

noun

  1. computing the linking of a number of different devices by cable within a system LAN
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

local area network

/ kəl /

  1. See LAN
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If malicious actors were able to penetrate the local area network of the converter station on the wind farm side, these actors could tamper with the system's sensors.

In order to access this information on the go, the app’s developers also created a portable backpack kit that acts as a local area network without connections to the broader Internet.

“I spent a lot of time on LAN—local area network,” he said.

The most common local area network protocol is Ethernet, the same format that has been a business and home networking standard for decades.

Instead, they should have set up a separate local area network, or LAN, that could not connect to the rest of the bank or the Internet, police said.

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