Networks

Your network infrastructure determines the quality and effectiveness of your data communications but it relies on your structured cabling system, its design and its implementation. Offering various wired and wireless network services, Fibrelight Communication Networks integrates all relevant factors in a bespoke installation to suit your specific requirements.

Local Area Networks (LANs)

A local area network, which takes various forms, is a computer system within a restricted, specific space (usually a building or site) such as an office, an educational institution (becoming CANS: campus-area networks), a domestic property (becoming HANs: home-area networks) or various commercial properties. Each computer or another ‘node’ on a LAN operates independently but also shares devices (e.g. printers), communicates with others (e.g. messaging) and accesses communal data (e.g. intranet) within the LAN. Although LANs can transfer data quickly, they usually cover limited distances.

Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs)

Metropolitan area networks connect numerous LANs and thus cover greater areas (hence distances) than individual LANs. Specific organisations (e.g. a council over a borough) and public services (e.g. throughout a town or city) use them to connect users and share regional resources. Usually using high-speed network connections such as fibre optic cabling, MANs allow extremely rapid communication throughout their interconnected networks but also provide access to wider area networks such as the internet. Fibrelight Communication Networks has worked on various aspects of MANs, including installing fibre optic cables across a town centre between buildings.

Wide Area Networks (WANs)

Wide area networks actually contain and transfer data within and between LANs, MANs and other local computer infrastructures so they interconnect geographically restricted networks. They work similarly to LANs but on a much larger scale as they operate over vast geographical areas such as a region, a country or even internationally with other WANs. Therefore, they provide the means to connect computers globally.