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OCR: 246 CHAPTER SECTION Network Building Blocks TODAY. NETWORKS ARE EVERYWHERE and network tech- nology is evolving rapidly Just when you think you have got handle on your home wireless network along come technologies like 802 11y Wireless USB and WiHD Although network technology continues tc evolve it is based on a set of fairly stable concepts. If you unders stand the network building blocks introduced in Section A working with new network technologies will be piece of cake NETWORK CLASSIFICATIONS What's the purpose network? In the early years of personal computers networks were scarce Most personal computers functioned as standalone units, and computing was essentially solitary activity in which one person interacted with limited set of software tools such as word processor, spreadsheet, da ...