FEATURES OF LAN

Limited Geographic Limits:-

A LAN is designed for a small area. Generally it spans a single office, work group floor in a building, or in a campus etc. LAN uses different protocols or rules lor information transmission.

Limited No. of Users: - Most LAN supports I number of users usually around five or ten. More users can be supported by connecting different LANs together, which gives better results than making one; by network of the nature of MAN.

Reliability & Stability: - LANS tend to be very reliable failures on a LAN are mostly due to wrong or improper installation and monitoring. Software that comes along with a LAN provides a number of useful programs like error-detection, prevention of transmission loss and excellent security features.

Flexibility: - Major development in LANs today is flexibility they offer. Earlier versions would support only one type of desktop computers. Today's advanced LANs however can support different types of computers. The flexibility also extends to operating systems & storage media.

Expandable: - Most LANs can be expanded easily. More nodes (Terminal) can be added. Although, this depends on design of cabling plan (Topology) also. Also LANs can have more servers oil same network and a user at a terminal can connect to one or many servers and work comfortably.

Security & Administration : - A LAN administrator is one who supervises the operation of a LAN. He takes care of tasks like adding or deleting users, creating passwords providing authorizations and other resources like printers and backing up data. All these tasks can be performed without much difficulty since both hardware and software are quite easy to manage today.