Home area network

A home network or home area network (HAN) is a type of local area network. This network can be used devices such as printers, smartphones and tablets. These additional capabilities can then be used to increase the quality of life inside the home.
Description

One of the primary drivers behind the establishment of this kind of network is the need to distribute residential Internet access to all internet capable devices in the home.
Causes

A home network usually relies on one of the following equipment to establish physical layer, data link layer, and network layer connectivity both internally amongst devices and externally with outside networks:
A modem is usually provided by an ISP to expose an Ethernet interface to the WAN via their telecommunications infrastructure. In homes these usually come in the form of a DSL modem or cable modem.
Infrastructure