Be sure the system you choose has room for expansion. Avoid outmoded as well as the newest cutting-edge technology. Consider leasing equipment instead of buying it, which can offer tax advantages and help you forecast costs. Choose a competent, highly regarded network design consultant, even if it costs you more. Bad advice could cost you big money.
Switches are a higher-performance alternative to hubs.
A suite of communications protocols, or formats, used to interconnect Internet servers, or hosts. A series of computers and peripheral devices connected within a company. The service that allows a LAN server to answer calls from employees using a modem and a telephone line to call in from home or the road. Devices that connect LANs to the Internet or other LANs. A phrase that refers to the way in which devices on a LAN are connected.