Local Area Network
A local area network (LAN) is installed at each site to allow access to the network and Internet. Every classroom, media center, office, lab, and workroom workstation is connected to the network and Internet. The LAN at each site consists of:
- 100 megabit backbone
- Cisco equipment based layer 2 switching which allows Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs), Quality of Service (QOS), Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), etc.
- Single or multiple servers to support network services - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), single point of sign on / authentication, Network Time Protocol (NTP), etc.
- shared resources - printers, software, shared files, etc.