LAN Standards

Local Area networks, generally called as LAN, are privately owned networks in a single building or campus of up to a few kilometers in size. They are primarily utilized to connect personal computers & workstations in company offices & factories to share resource & exchange information.  In current years, LAN techniques have become an effectual method of data transfer in shop floor and office automation both. It might provide a faster communication than point-to-point communication method. It enables many-to-many communication on the similar network through the similar cable. An ideal LAN has the following characteristics such as:

• High speed : greater than 10 Mbps (Mega Bytes Per Second)
• Low cost: easily affordable on a microcomputer and/or machine controller.
• High reliability/integrity : fault-tolerant, low error rates, reliable
• Expandability : simply expandable
• Installation flexibility : easy installation in an present environment
• Interface standard : standard interface across a range of computers & controllers