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The local area network (LAN) has grown up. Long regarded as the enfant terrible of the networking family, the LAN has undergone a difficult adolescence, but is now driving many of the changes seen in networking, as new LAN applications — for example, networked multimedia or the more humble intranet World Wide Web (WWW) site — lead the push for ever-higher wide area network (WAN) bandwidths. The importance of LANs has grown to the extent that many people now regard access to electronic mail and the corporate intranet as more important to them at work than the telephone network. This places fresh challenges on the networking and computer systems — the reliability and availability of LANs and servers now has to be comparable to that of the telephony network. This is not trivial — in traditional telephony the characteristics of customer premises equipment (CPE) have been rigorously defined. However, on a LAN, users have a great degree of freedom in what equipment they connect and in how they use (and, in many cases, abuse) the system, and in the applications they run.
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Newson, D.J., Ginsburg, D., Wilkins, M.T. (1999). Next Generation Local Area Networks. In: King, T., Newson, D. (eds) Data Network Engineering. BT Telecommunications Series, vol 17. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5215-4_6
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