Network Types

Question 1

MAN

Answer 1

Metropolitan Area Network

Spans a whole city

Incorporates both LANs and WANs, multiple city blocks, city government, city, big company

Question 2

LAN

Answer 2

Local Area network

Spans a house, a small geographical location like a building or small group of buildings

Question 3

WLAN

Answer 3

Wireless Local Area Network

spans a house while using wireless technology

Question 4

WAN

Answer 4

Wide Area Network

Connects LANs together over long distances, multiple cities, countries, and world wide

The internet is a WAN as it connects many different types of LANs together using many different types of WAN technologies

Even connects LANs together over VPN technologies

Question 5

WWAN

Answer 5

Wireless Wide Area Network

Question 6

WLAN

Answer 6

Wireless Local Area Network

Question 7

CAN

Answer 7

Campus Area Network

Usually spans multiple buildings

Two or more LANs, large capacity, high speed, switched networks

Multiple LANs all within the same geographic location

Question 8

CAN Switches

Answer 8

Core Switches - process lots of the primary traffic in this CAN. Where all the servers connect in this particular network, at the network core

Distribution Switches - connects to all other switches called Access Switches

Access Switches - where individual computers connect to get access to the network

Question 9

PAN

Answer 9

Personal Area Network

Used primarily to connect peripherals. Short range wireless tech such as bluetooth

Least referenced Network