HOW MANY TYPES OF NETWORKS?

How Many Type Network ?

THERE ARE 3 TYPE OF NETWORK 

• LOCAL AREA NETWORK (LAN)
• METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORK (MAN)
• WIDE AREA NETWORK (WAN) 

LOCAL AREA NETWORK :

• Local Area Network (LAN) is a network, which is limited to a small office, single building, multiple buildings, college campus etc.
• Local Area Network technologies are  Ethernet , Token Ring , FDDI.

METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORK:

• A Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) refers to a network, which is located in a city or metropolitan area.
• If an organization has multiple offices in a city, the term that refers the network is called MAN.

WIDE AREA NETWORK :

•  A Wide Area Network (WAN) spans over multiple geographic locations.
• Which composed of multiple MANs.