Wide Area Networks, or WAN, span a large geographical area. A WAN contains a collection of machines intended for running user programs. Transmission rates are typically 2 Mbps, 34 Mbps, 45 Mbps, 155 Mbps, 625 Mbps, etc. The machines are connected by a subnet whose job is to carry messages from machine to machine. The [...]
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A metropolitan area network, or MAN is basically a bigger version of LAN. MAN is a computer networks usually spanning a campus or a city, which typically connect a few local area networks using high speed backbone technologies. A MAN supports both data and voice. A MAN just has one or two cables and does [...] Local Area networks, generally called LANs, are privately owned networks within a single building or campus of up to a few kilometers in size. Most local area networks are built with relatively inexpensive hardware such as Ethernet cables, network adapters, and hubs. Wireless LAN and other more advanced LAN hardware options also exist as a [...] Fiber distributed data interface (FDDI) provides a standard for data transmission in a local area network that can extend in range up to 200 kilometers (124 miles). FDDI is a token-passing, fiber ring, network. The fiber optic media can be multimode fiber and can be as large as 100 kilometers – with no more than [...] |
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