Is LAN (Local Area Network) hardware or software?
Local Area Network (LAN) is considered both hardware and software when we look at it at both sides. The network is something that connects devices into one “web” which means LAN could be considered as software. It could also be the routers, wifi, and other devices that provide networks which categorizes LAN as even hardware. When we talk physically about LAN, it’s the cables and interlinks that conjoins a variety of devices allowing them to transfer data and information to one another. When we look at it virtually as software, anything we receive from another device over a network is the product of such. There you have it. How we use LAN on our computers is how we perceive it as software and how we connect our devices with routers and cables is how we perceive them as hardware.
