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Chapter Nine: Local area networks Your links to, Dumas Lecture Notes: Highlighted instructor's manual of Dumas
 * Principles of Computer Networks and Communications **

Functional need assessment editing by moaz shehade ** Learning Objectives: **

After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
 * Describe how different forms of LANs originated and how they evolved.
 * Differentiate LAN physical and logical topologies.
 * Identify LAN addressing issues and the role of MAC addresses
 * Describe the role of LAN segmentation and its impact on performance.
 * Compare and contrast Ethernet, Token Ring, and FDDI LAN models.
 * Describe the role of VLANs and LANE configurations in networking schemes.

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