Monday, December 14, 2009

Metropolitan area network (MAN)

A metropolitan network is a network that is too large for even the largest of LAN's but is not on the scale of a WAN. It also integrates two or more LAN networks over a specific geographical area ( usually a city ) so as to increase the network and the flow of communications. The LAN's in question would usually be connected via " backbone " lines.
For more information on WANs, see Frame Relay, ATM and Sonet.

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