Reply To: OCU C)OST B Discussion Lesson 03
Local Area network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), Personal Area Network (PAN), Campus Area Network (CAN), Metropolitan Area Network (MAN), and Storage Area Network (SAN) are the different types of networks. LAN interconnects devices with in a limited areas and these areas can range from residential to large scale universities. WAN expands over vary large areas, facilitating the needs of cities to countries. PAN is a small scale are and is quite literally explained in its name as personal area because it the size of a personal bubble. CAN is utilized as a multiport adapter, it allows multiple networks to connect on a single campus size area. MAN is similar to CAN, with the exception that it can connect all or part of a city wide area. SAN is used to help connect storage space, like cloud back ups to our internal device storage.
