October 2019
Beginner
426 pages
10h 44m
English
In contrast to a LAN, a MAN (Figure 1.4) represents a group of LANs interconnected within the geographical boundary of a town or city. Nowadays, fiber optics and gigabit layer 3 switches are used to interconnect LANs and route the traffic among them, as seen in the following figure:

Finally, we will understand what is a wide area network (WAN) which has the greatest coverage.
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