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Lesson: The Networks The Network:: MAN: Metropolitan Area Network

The document discusses different types of computer networks categorized by their scope and scale. It describes Local Area Networks (LANs) which connect devices over short distances like within an office or home, Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) which connect computers in cities and are larger than LANs but smaller than WANs, and Wide Area Networks (WANs) which span large physical distances and geographical areas like the Internet. LANs offer high reliability and speed but limited range, MANs connect cities while being more complex than LANs, and WANs connect across countries and regions under distributed ownership like the Internet.

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Lesson: The Networks The Network:: MAN: Metropolitan Area Network

The document discusses different types of computer networks categorized by their scope and scale. It describes Local Area Networks (LANs) which connect devices over short distances like within an office or home, Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) which connect computers in cities and are larger than LANs but smaller than WANs, and Wide Area Networks (WANs) which span large physical distances and geographical areas like the Internet. LANs offer high reliability and speed but limited range, MANs connect cities while being more complex than LANs, and WANs connect across countries and regions under distributed ownership like the Internet.

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University A.

Mira of Bejaia
Faculty of Exact Sciences.
Department of Computer Science.
Level: third year
Module: Technical English

Lesson: the networks

The network:

The Network allows computers to connect and communicate with different computers via
any medium

Types of area networks:

One way to categorize the different types of computer network designs is by their scope or
scale. LAN, MAN and WAN are the three major types of the network designed to operate
over the area they cover.
There are other types of Computer Networks also, like:

 LAN - Local Area Network


 MAN - Metropolitan Area Network
 WAN - Wide Area Network
 WLAN - Wireless Local Area Network
 SAN - Storage Area Network, System Area Network, Server Area Network, or
sometimes Small Area Network
 POLAN- Passive Optical Local Area Network.
 EPN- Enterprise Private Network.
 VPN-Virtual Private Network.

 CAN - Campus Area Network, Controller Area Network, or sometimes Cluster Area
Network
 PAN - Personal Area Network

LAN and WAN are the two primary and best-known categories of area networks, while the
others have emerged with technology advances

LAN: Local Area Network

A LAN connects network devices over a relatively short distance. A networked office
building, school, or home usually contains a single LAN, though sometimes one building will
contain a few small LANs (perhaps one per room), and occasionally a LAN will span a group
of nearby buildings In addition to operating in a limited space, LANs are also typically
owned, controlled, and managed by a single person or organization.

MAN: Metropolitan Area Network

MAN or Metropolitan area Network covers a larger area than that of a LAN and smaller area
as compared to WAN. It connects two or more computers that are apart but resides in the
same or different cities. It covers a large geographical area. MAN is designed for customers
who need a high-speed connectivity. It’s hard to design and maintain a Metropolitan Area
Network.

The fault tolerance of a MAN is less and also there is more congestion in the network. It is
costly and may or may not be owned by a single organization. The data transfer rate and the
propagation delay of MAN is moderate. Devices used for transmission of data through MAN
are: Modem and Wire/Cable. Examples of a MAN are the part of the telephone company
network that can provide a high-speed DSL line to the customer or the cable TV network in a
city.

WAN: Wide Area Network

As the term implies, a WAN spans a large physical distance or large geographical area. The
Internet is the largest WAN, spanning the Earth. A WAN is a geographically-dispersed
collection of LANs. A network device called a router connects LANs to a WAN.

A WAN differs from a LAN in several important ways. Most WANs (like the Internet) are not
owned by any one organization but rather exist under collective or distributed ownership and
management.

WAN is difficult to design and maintain. Similar to a MAN, the fault tolerance of a WAN is
less and there is more congestion in the network

Conclusion:
There are many advantages of LAN over MAN and WAN, such as LAN’s provide excellent
reliability, high data transmission rate, they can easily be managed, and shares peripheral
devices too. Local Area Network cannot cover cities or towns and for that Metropolitan Area
Network is needed, which can connect city or a group of cities together. Further, for
connecting Country or a group of Countries one requires Wide Area Network.

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