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What is a Local Area Network?

A local area network, or LAN, is a geographically limited network intended for the local transport of voice, data, and video. Often referred to as an enterprise network, a LAN is just one of many types of area networks. It can be a small in-building network designed to connect IP devices, or a large network connecting multiple sites or buildings in a medical or university campus.

The LAN is made up of three primary applications: outside plant or campus network, in-building, and the horizontal. These areas contain both active (electronics) and passive (cabling) components that enable the transfer of data to all devices connected to the network. Understanding your network needs is critical to providing a network that will support your needs today and allow your network to grow into the future

Your local area network (LAN) is the heart of your organization – connecting all the IP devices and providing the bandwidth and reliability needed to run your business. Whether you are connecting devices to the network through wired or wireless connections. Creating a well-planned fiber optic backbone for your network infrastructure is what we do. We are here to ensure that you have the tools, resources, and support you need to build that is scalable, reliable, and cost-effective network that is easy to deploy. Explore our services and complete line of fiber optic solutions, including cables, hardware, connectivity, and accessories for campus, building, and horizontal applications.

Considerations in LAN Design

Considerations in outside fiber-optic cable design

The Outside Plant network is evolving due to ever increasing bandwidth demands and the push to drive fiber deeper and deeper into the network. These trends are leading to rising demand for fiber counts greater than 1000 fibers in one cable. These demands require installers and designers to leverage different cable designs to meet current network complexity.

Distributed sensing cable in industrial environments

Imagine being able to continuously, accurately, and in real-time detect small acoustic, temperature, and/or strain changes anywhere along an optical cable in the outside plant environment. Find out how this is possible using optical fiber as the intrinsic sensing medium.

Distance, wattage considerations drive power decisions

Power over Ethernet—It’s an old concept with new applications happening today. As the concept is being re-imagined, why not also re-imagine your infrastructure to align data and power for the future of the building. New power solutions today enable high power options with traditional low-voltage labor and safety.

Network Infrastructure: Now the Fourth Utility

Reliable connectivity has become the expectation in our increasingly connected world. This is why forward-thinking business professionals consider their telecommunications infrastructure a “fourth utility” that is as crucial to their employees and clients as electricity, water, and HVAC. Download our white paper to learn the value of a converged fiber network

Traditional LAN

The fiber optic backbone is your network’s foundation. It connects various buildings and devices together to create the local area network. We have solutions for both outside plant and in-building applications that are available, compatible and easy to install

Harsh Environments

Keeping the network up and running in harsh environments requires more than just properly protecting the cabling from the elements. Product availability and lead time is critical.

Next Generation LAN

The edge of your network is facing unprecedented bandwidth and mobility demands. We have solutions – including some you may not have considered.

Secure Solutions

Whether you are providing mission critical military communications or enabling security and surveillance systems, it is essential that your network infrastructure delivers secure and reliable service at all times. Learn more about how our leading network solutions can enable more security, scalability, and faster speed of deployment.

Traditional Local Area Networks

	Scalable The future requirements of your network are unclear and ever changing. It is important to deploy a network infrastructure that is easy to upgrade and deploy as your network needs change.
	Reliable Downtime can cause a reduced productivity and undesirable customer experience resulting in a considerable loss of revenue. It is critical to have a network that is available and minimizes downtime by installing solutions that are available, compatible and easy to deploy.
	Cost Effective Network owners are challenged to do more with less. Innovative products that reduce installation time and require less training can reduce overall project cost.

What type of fiber optic backbone are you deploying?

Campus Backbone

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The campus backbone connects multiple buildings or site together to create your local area network. It requires a robust cabling infrastructure that provides long term bandwidth and reliability.

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Building Backbone

Building Backbone

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The building backbone connects the Main Distribution Area (MDA) to all Telecommunications Rooms (TRs) enabling all data transmission though out the building. It requires a cabling infrastructure easy to install and quickly deployed.

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Knowledge Center

Traditional Local Area Network Resources

Your one-stop source for industry articles, case studies, and information about Corning’s traditional local area network solutions and products.

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Webinars

Standards 101

Standards 101 Webinar (On Demand)

Standards provide a framework to ensure that new products, technologies, innovations, components and services provided by different companies will be mutually compatible. Why is this important?

Fiber 101

Fiber 101 (On Demand)

Network performance is more critical than ever before. Understanding the basics about how fiber works, the types of fiber and where to use them, will help you determine which fiber is right for you network.

Please join Arelis Soto, Marketing Manager as she shares her expertise and experiences as a Field Engineer and Applications Engineer to help you become a fiber expert.

Tools and Resources

Enterprise Networks Core Products Guide

We’ve got technology for virtually every local area network need. Download our Enterprise Networks Core Products guide that lists the products most often used by our customers.

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Bill of Material Tool

Forget the guesswork. We can help you select the fiber optic products you need for your enterprise network with our configurable LANscape® Solutions bill-of-materials Tool.

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System Design Calculators

We offer a variety of system design calculators to assist in the design and analysis of your networks, including a link-loss budget calculator and a fill ratio calculator.

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Just the Technical Facts: Understanding fiber optics and local area networks

This white paper provides technical information about the benefits of fiber, how it works and how to choose the right cable, hardware and connectivity for your local area network.

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Tour our Headquarters

The Corning Optical Communications Headquarters is built on a future-ready, fiber-rich network. By deploying fiber and power via composite cable to the edge of the network, this building is equipped to handle the many applications today’s workers demand.

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