local-area network

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lo′cal-ar′ea net′work

1. a system for linking private telecommunications equipment, as in a building or cluster of buildings.

2. a computer network confined to a limited area, linking esp. personal computers so that programs, data, peripheral devices, and processing tasks can be shared.

Also called LAN.

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Dannon of Mexico hired IBM to manage the plant's hardware and local-area network five years ago.

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These tools will provide network analysis and troubleshooting for WLAN (wireless local-area network) management, based on the IEEE 802.11b protocol standard for wireless communications.

NETWORK INSTRUMENTS AND SYMBOL TECH TO PARTNER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF WIRELESS NETWORK ANALYSIS TOOLS

A remote user can access the blenders via an "intranet" contained within the plant, or an outside "extranet." An intranet is an Ethernet local-area network (LAN), to which multiple Guardian blenders are linked.