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Friday, December 25, 2015
Wide Area Network (WAN) @ 12:08 AM

What is WAN??




  • A WAN is a network that covers a large geographic area such as in the city, country or the world using a communications channel that combines many types of media such as telephone line, cables and radio waves.
  • The internet is the world's largest WAN.

The used of WAN in the world.



The characteristics of WAN:
  1. WAN can cover a very large geographical area such as states, countries and continents
  2. The usually communicate at slower speeds compared to LAN and MAN.
  3. Communications medium used are satellite, public telephone networks which are connected by routers.
  4. Routers forward packets from one to another a route from the sender to the receiver.












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