Network Types Flashcards
1
Q
What is PAN?
A
-Personal Area Network
-People and their devices
-EX: bluetooth and hotspots
2
Q
What is LAN?
A
-Local Area Network
-Computers in a limited network
-Wired
-Ethernet
3
Q
What is WLAN?
A
-Wireless Local Area Network
-Wi-fi
4
Q
What is SAN?
A
-Storage Area Network
-Access to storage to prevent interference with main network
5
Q
What is CAN?
A
-Campus Area Network
-Multiple LANs connected
-College Campus or individual businesses
6
Q
What is MAN?
A
-Metropolitan Area Network
-City-wide connections
7
Q
What is WAN?
A
-Wide Area Network
-Connects the world together
-World Wide Web
8
Q
What is Client-Server?
A
-contains a client and a server
-Server stores the data
-client needs access to the data
9
Q
What is Peer-to-Peer?
A
-Every machine can be client or server
-Bitcoin/Tor
