What is the full form of LAN?

Table of Contents

1. LAN Full Form
   1. Brief History
2. Other full forms of LAN

LAN Full Form

The full form of LAN is “Local Area Network“. A LAN is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, university campus or office building. Ethernet and Wi-Fi are the two most common technologies used for local area networks. A traditional LAN is typically some form of NAT (Network Address Translation) which allows a single public or routable address to be shared by many devices behind the NAT device. It includes a switch and clients or devices that communicate which each other over a single broadcast domain.

The increasing demand and use of computers in universities and research laboratories in the late 1960s created a need for computer systems to provide high-speed interconnects. A 1970 report from the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory detailing the development of their “Octopus” network gave a good indication of the situation. Several experimental and early commercial LAN technologies were developed in the 1970s. Ethernet was developed at Xerox PARC between 1973 and 1974.

Other full forms of LAN