The communications technology of the public Internet, local area networks (LANs) and most wide area networks (WANs). The Internet Protocol (IP) is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, and the terms ...

The internet is a WAN because, using ISPs, it connects many smaller local area ... simplifies X.25 protocols and provides a less expensive solution for wide area networks that needed to run ...

Also called a "VLAN," it is a logical subgroup within a local area network that is created ... The router works at the higher layer 3 network protocol, which requires that network layer segments ...