Computer Networking at the Best Little Bank

Mr$.$ Inrockmorion

Good morning, Rhea Prasad! I hear you're ready to make some recommendations about how we should proceed in our expansion. You know we currently use a LAN, a local area network, in our bank. So if we open a second location in Smallville, which is $50$ miles away, I understand that we need to change to a wide area network, a WAN. Is that correct?

Yes, we must use a WAN because no server can handle two sites.

No$,$ that's not true. We can just use two separate LANs.

Yes, we must switch to a WAN because each LAN can only exist in a single physical location using wires to join all the computers.

That's not absolutely necessary. We can use our current LAN as the hub and the new site can connect to that.

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