A widely used type of local area network (8)

I believe the answer is:

ethernet

(Other definitions for ethernet that I've seen before include "Network of a number of computers" , "Local area computer network" , "food" , "System connecting several computers" , "Computer system" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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