These hosts are potentially very diverse, with some being servers and workstations, and still others as PDAs and phones.
The hosts have different operating systems and hardware processing speeds, as well as different networking technologies.
Further, the network infrastructure can have similar diversity as well.
Typically, such infrastructures are wired 10/100/1000 BaseT IEEE 802.3ab gigabit Ethernet infrastructures or 10/100 BaseT IEEE 802.3u megabit Ethernet infrastructures.
Lastly, multiple wireless access points are also present, with similar diversities as the rest of the wireless hosts.