WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF COMPUTER NETWORK?

TYPES OF COMPUTER NETWORKS

Short for Metropolitan-Area Network, MAN is a network that is utilized across multiple buildings. A MAN is much larger than the standard Local-Area Network (LAN), but is not as large as a Wide Area Network (WAN). A MAN is commonly used in school campuses and large companies with multiple buildings.

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A Wide Area network (WAN) is a geographically distributed private telecommunications network that interconnects multiple local area networks (LANs). In an enterprise, a WAN may consist of connections to a company's headquarters, branch offices, colocation facilities, cloud services and other facilities. Typically, a router or other multifunction device is used to connect a LAN to a WAN.

                                                                                                                source: https://searchenterprisewan.techtarget.com/definition/WAN

A Local-Area Network (LAN) is a computer network that spans a relatively small area. Most often, a LAN is confined to a single room, building or group of buildings, however, one LAN can be connected to other LANs over any distance via telephone lines and radio waves.                                                                                           

 source: https://www.webopedia.com/TERM/L/local_area_network_LAN.html

A Personal Area Network (PAN) is a computer network used for data transmission amongst devices such as computers, telephones, tablets, personal digital assistants, fax machines and printers, that are located close to a single user

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