FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS

COMMUNICATION WIRELESS COMPUTING DEVICES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of these best describes a wide area network (WAN)?
A
A network that covers a small geographical area.
B
A network that covers a large geographical area.
C
A network limited to just one room.
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A wide area network (also known as WAN), is a large network of information that is not tied to a single location. WANs can facilitate communication, the sharing of information and much more between devices from around the world through a WAN provider.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The largest WAN in the world is the Internet, which can sometimes be referred to as the cloud.

Detailed explanation-4: -A wide area network (WAN) is any network that extends over a large geographic area, usually connecting multiple local area networks (LANs).

Detailed explanation-5: -metropolitan area network (MAN) 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).

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