MAN
Metropolitan Area Network
A network spanning a city or large campus.
A MAN spans a city or large campus, sitting in scale between a local area network and a wide area network and often interconnecting multiple sites of one organization. Its geographic spread raises concerns about protecting links that may cross public rights of way, making encryption of inter site traffic important. Understanding where a MAN fits in the LAN to WAN size hierarchy is the typical exam focus, along with the availability impact of its broader physical footprint.
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