LANs abbr.
〈计〉局域网 (local area networks)
- Net income rose to Dollars 179.5m for the nine month period, an increase of 60 per cent. The use of local area networks (LANs) has evolved over the past decade to become a primary element of corporate computing systems.
- But they have proliferated in many organisations, and their cost has come down so low that they have become a commodity item. Now, many companies are realising that these isolated LANs could bring more benefit if they were tied together.
- 'We've designed a strategy that lets them do exactly that,' says Hancock, 'by bringing users on local area networks (LANs) into the ATM world, then linking users throughout the enterprise.