Word: networked
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HASCS has long promised that roaming ethernet was right around the corner. However, before the change could take place, HASCS had to complete substantial upgrades to its network...
Currently, computers on the FAS network are connected through a series of "hubs." Under the hub system, data is broadcast en masse to all the computers on the network. Individual computers must then snag data that is intended for them...
Under a switch system, the network directs data so that it goes only to its intended user...
Davis, who is also a Crimson editor, said that HASCS has been hesitant to undertake substantial changes to the network until just the right moment presented itself...
...There is, of course, a risk that things will not go well," Davis said. "This change will be as large a change to the FAS network as has occurred in the eight or so years it's been around...