Nokia's clash with RIM centred on wireless local area network (Wlan) connections to the internet.
That means spending on a company's local area network suffers in a downturn.
In three days Dell and EMC technicians rebuilt the hospital's storage area network in a nearby high school gym.
In most offices, where there's often a local area network installed for sharing files and printers, sneakernets disappeared years ago.
He is attacking the heart of the problem, the metropolitan area network that bridges the "last mile" between businesses and long-haul networks.
Customers can make phone calls, send faxes, access the Internet, transfer images, transmit videos and log on remotely to a local area network.
The tablets were too bulky, too slow, too expensive, and wireless connectivity had not yet advanced to broadband Wi-Fi and wide-area network services.
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An 802.11b network is meant to specifically replace the Ethernet cords you now need to connect your PC to a local area network.
You can also create an "on the move" Personal Area Network.
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They can also be used to transfer data, such as MP3 files, from one computer to another--or even to a home entertainment center--over a local area network.
My car, outfitted with a GPS position finder and an off-the-shelf wireless local area network (WLAN) communication system, was tipped off by another car carrying the same gear.
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In October the company launched its global area network (GAN), which offers a mobile integrated services digital network (ISDN), ideal for video conferencing, image transfer and high-quality voice transmission.
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With the Slingbox 500 and a smartphone installed with the SlingPlayer app on the same local area network, photos and videos are synced automatically -- from the phone to USB drive.
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All the critical systems in a modern car -- engine, transmission, brakes, stability controls -- are linked to a single electronic system called the Controller Area Network bus, or CAN bus.
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According to the DISA briefing, no unit or command will be allowed to connect a local- or wide-area network to NIPRNET until the network goes through a formal connection approval process.
This space is known as a Personal Area Network.
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Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota and Pennsylvania filed an unsuccessful federal lawsuit against Illinois over a Chicago-area network of canals and rivers that could provide a pathway to Lake Michigan for Asian carp.
The company also has extended the Mac's "file sharing" capabilities from the local area network to the Internet, allowing companies to more easily write workflow applications that run across machines in different locations.
To provide these notifications in real time, the wireless wide-area network modules from Novatel Wireless securely connect through HSDPA and EV-DO networks to the Microsoft Exchange Server, storing user information and filter policies.
The company, which provides phones that work off a wireless local area network (WLAN)--a Wi-Fi network designed for the workplace--had recently acquired KIRK Telecom, a privately held Danish provider of wireless communications products.
Another benefit of server-side flash is that it allows system administrators to manage flash on the server side for performance, but also keep network storage (for example, the storage area network) for storage capacity.
This includes a satellite to receive the movies, a cache server to hold them, a local area network to distribute them to the right screens, and media players and digital projectors for each screen.
I'm not saying it's the Holy Grail, but Network Magic presents a well-designed tool set for the home area network-it's a scaled down corporate network management program written specifically for the Home-Area Network (HAN).
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Granite uses a combination of virtualization technology and wide area network (WAN) optimization, which makes it possible to store large amounts of data in the hub centers, yet transmit information to multiple offices in a short period of time.
Dick Lynch, chief technology officer of Verizon Wireless, explains that no wide-area wireless network can afford to build out wide-area data capacity to handle bursts of demand for wireless data that change from airport gate to gate every 30 minutes or so.
Now that wide-area wireless network operators recognize Wi-Fi hotspots as complementary to their advanced packet-data networks, they will end up owning or leasing most of today's hotspots and will build out coverage.
Local targets would be established to cut cancer deaths in every cancer network area by 2012.
The server was in semi-retirement, redirecting visitors to another area of the network with more updated content, he said.
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