WAN is a wide area network. It covers a broad area.LAN means local area network.Its range is within a limited area such as home,school or building.
City networks are commonly known as WAN's, or Wide Area Network's.
A LAN has a limited length for distance, and for the number of clients that may be connected to it. If you exceed either, then you may need a longer connection distance, which is afforded by a WAN.
Wide area networking is also referred to just WAN and means a network that is not limited to a local area, local area network (LAN). The world wide WEB is the biggest WAN of all. An home would use a LAN. A typical office building would use a LAN. If you interconnect several LANs across a wide geographical range you end up with a WAN. Make sense?
Token ring is a loacal area network technology. It is limited in ldistance by its physical layer connection requirements.
The area of Tsuen Wan District in Hong Kong is approximately 60.7 square kilometers.
GWAN = Gigabit WAN WAN = Wide Area Network LAN = Local Area Network WLAN = Wireless Local Area Network MAN = Metropolitan Area Network
LAN is the Local Area Network while the WAN is the Wide Area Network.
LAN: Limited geographical area usually within the same building. WAN: Larger global Network with no physical boundaries.
PAN = Personal Area Network WAN = Wide Area Network LAN = Local Area Network
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WAN = Wide Area Network WLAN = Wireless Local Area Network hope I helped