FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -A Metropolitan Area Network is a class of network which serves a large geographical area between 5 to 50 kilometers in range. This geographical area can include several buildings, such as a college campus, sometimes referred to as a campus network, or an area as large as a city (metropolitan area).

Detailed explanation-2: -A wide area network (WAN) is any network that extends over a large geographic area, usually connecting multiple local area networks (LANs).

Detailed explanation-3: -A metropolitan area network (MAN) is a computer network that is larger than a single building local area network (LAN) but is located in a single geographic area that is smaller than a wide area network (WAN). Generally, it is several LANs interconnected by dedicated backbone connections.

Detailed explanation-4: -Personal Area Network (PAN) is the computer network that connects computers/devices within the range of an individual person. As PAN provides a network range within a person’s range typically within a range of 10 meters(33 feet) it is called a Personal Area Network.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.