We will start by Defining what a local area network (LAN)
is all about.

A local area network (LAN) is a collection of devices connected together in one physical location, such as a building, office, or home. A LAN can be small or large, ranging from a home network with one user to an enterprise network with thousands of users and devices in an office or school.

TYPES OF LOCAL AREA NETWORK

1. Client-server LAN
2. Peer to peer LAN
3. Token ring LAN
4. Wired LAN
5. Wireless LAN

6. Cloud manage LAN

7. Client-server LAN
   This type of Local area communicate at the same time in a
   network whereby the server provide Data to the client system.
   

8. Peer to peer LAN
   In this type of networking there is no Central server all the
   connected system share there resource together.

1. Token ring LAN
   In the Token ring LAN all devices are connected in a ring
   form. A token is Assigned to all Devices based on their
   requirement. This was introduced by IBM in 1984.
   

2. Wired LAN
   Wired LAN is the most common LAN it uses a medium to transmit
   to each device connected to it, such medium include (Fiber
   optics, Coaxial cable, copper cable(Shielded twisted pair and
   Unshielded twisted pair)
   

3. Wireless LAN
   Wireless LAN is just like the wired LAN the difference is the
   medium of communication it uses wireless device such as
   wireless router, access point, wireless repeater for it
   communication.
   

4. Cloud managed LAN
   Cloud managed LAN is a type of LAN where a dedicated cloud
   platform is used to managed all the devices.
   This is what all organization are keying into currently, and
   this is the future of networking we have many Cloud providers
   like AWS, Azure, Oracle cloud service, Alibaba cloud, Goggle
   cloud.

NETWORK TOPOLOGY

1. Star Topology
2. Bus Topology
3. Ring Topology
4. Tree Topology