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Campus area network

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- [Narrator] A campus area network is a large private local area network in a confined location. It can be a college campus, hospital campus, corporate campus, or a military base. The enterprise network has all the elements necessary for operating independently and serving the client's needs. Careful design requires that the network is available, adaptable, manageable, and secure to meet the current and future needs of the business. The most common design is a hierarchy design that includes core, distribution, and access layers. The core layer is a critical layer that requires high performance routing and optimized data exchange among other core switches and distribution switches within the enterprise network. The core is also called the network backbone and should be resilient, always on, and have redundancy to recover quickly in case of failure. The distribution layer is the control boundary between the access and the core and has several functions. It aggregates data from the…

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