BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
COMPUTER SYSTEM TYPES
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Wide Area Network
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Wireless Area Network
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Wire Area Network
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A wide-area network (WAN) is the technology that connects your offices, data centers, cloud applications, and cloud storage together. It is called a wide-area network because it spans beyond a single building or large campus to include multiple locations spread across a specific geographic area, or even the world.
Detailed explanation-2: -WAN is widely used in long-distance communication systems. It covers bigger areas i.e right from a state to a country. Therefore the geographical area it covers is from 100 to several 1000 km.
Detailed explanation-3: -WAN Device means a set of hardware components controlled by software (for example, switches, routers, gateways) that allows a number of devices to connect to each other or to be connected to other LANs via routers and communicate using various data types, formats and communications protocols.