LAN eliminates the possibility of overspending by allowing workstations to share peripherals like printers, plotters, digitizers, tape drives and hard disks. The lowers the overall cost of data processing. Provides for efficient and flexible communication. By providing a facility through which a wide variety of computer equipment can shared by many people, the local area network presents a cost-effective solution. In a LAN the shared resources need not be just hardware, software and information also may be shared.
As a resource sharing tool, a LAN can:
- Permit sharing of expensive hardware.
- Facilitate sharing of complex programs and the information that they generate and manage.
Aid in the integration of all aspects of information processing, particularly transforming a group of individual, not very powerful microcomputers into a powerful distributed processing system.
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