Example 172,570 people in America were diagnosed with lung cancer in 2005, a year in which there were approximately 290,000,000 Americans, yielding an absolute risk of 1:1,680 of being diagnosed with lung cancer.
Definition: A local area network (LAN) supplies networking capability to a group of computers in close proximity to each other such as in an office building, a school, or a home.A LAN is useful for sharing resources like files, printers, games or other applications.ost local area networks use Wi-Fi or Ethernet for connectivity between devices. (See also-Comparing Wired and Wireless Network Technology). Each of these local networks may stand alone (disconnected from any other network) or may connect to other LANs and additionally a WAN (such as the Internet).
A virtual LAN is any broadcast domain that is partitioned and isolated in a computer network at the data link layer. LAN is the abbreviation for local area network and in this context virtual refers to a physical object recreated and altered by additional logic. VLANs work by applying tags to network packets and handling these tags in networking systems â creating the appearance and functionality of network traffic that is physically on a single network but acts as if it is split between ...