3. COMPUTER NETWORK
Is a system of two or more computers that are
connected with one another for the purpose of
communicating data electronically…
(Britannica,(2022).
It is also a system of two or more computers that
are connected and able to communicate and share
files, software and hardware.
(k,Makhoabenyane,(2018;102).
4. PICTURE OF A COMPUTER NETWORK
Picture by: Research gate.net
5. TYPES OF COMPUTER NETWORK
Two basic types of computer
network:
1. Local Area Network (LAN)
2. Wide Area Network (WAN)
6. LOCALAREA NETWORK (LAN)
It is a computer network that usually covers a single
room, a single building or close buildings like
university residences, for this reason, they are privately
owned for the purpose of sharing resources like
printers, a servers and modem.
It ranges from a small network that covers a distance of
10m in an office.
At most it covers a radius of roughly a kilometre.
7. CONTINUATION
Local Area Network can be wired or wireless.
It is said to be wired when nodes are
connected using cables and switches
It is wireless if nodes are connected by
wireless devices and communication is through
radio waves, normally referred to as Wi-Fi
8. PICTURE OF A LOCALAREA NETWORK
Picture by: Omnisecu.com
9. WIDE AREA NETWORK (WAN)
Is a computer network that covers a ,large
geographical area through a shared
communication path.
It can also be defined as group of Local Area
Networks that communicate with each other.
The most common example of WAN is the
internet.
11. REFERENCE LIST
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