Typical Enterprise Campus LANs

Companies (enterprises) need to support the devices used by their employees at the enterprise’s business sites. Each site used by the enterprise might be only a few floors in an office building, or it might be the entire building, or even a campus with many buildings. Regardless, the term campus LAN refers to the LAN created to support the devices used by the people in an enterprise at a particular site.

Campus networks have similar needs compared to a SOHO network, but on a much larger scale. For example, enterprise Ethernet LANs begin with LAN switches installed in a wiring closet behind a locked door on each floor of a building. The electricians install the Ethernet cabling from that wiring closet to cubicles ...

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