MAN / Metropolitan Area Network for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: Technologies for Networks in a City"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

MAN / Metropolitan Area Network is much like a WAN / Wide Area Network in that it is larger than a mere LAN / Local Area Network, which is located within a single location, but it is located within one geographical location such as the metro St Louis area. So a MAN / Metropolitan Area Network is much bigger than a single small network in one business location, but not spread out over the country or the world.

MAN / Metropolitan Area Network does require the same basic technologies and techniques as the WAN / Wide Area Network, therefore

It's sort of a sub-WAN.

A MAN / Metropolitan Area Network must be connected by a third party such as normal telephone wires, but should be less expensive than the typical WAN / Wide Area Network since all connection charges are local.

Like the others a MAN / Metropolitan Area Network can be a peer to peer, client/server or hybrid network. It could be a part of a larger WAN / Wide Area Network. It could also consist of several LANs bridged with backbone lines. This setup has also been called a campus network, since large universities use the same basic technologies.

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