PAN: personal area network Personal Area Network
- Wireless connections: Bluetooth, Infrared, NFC
- Wired connection: USB cable
- Commonly used for transferring small files, such as music, photos, calendars, conventions, etc.
LAN: local area network LAN
- It consists of a group of devices, such as computers, servers, switches, printers, etc.
- The most common type is an Ethernet LAN, two or more computers connected via a cable to the Ethernet switch
WLAN: wireless local area network WLAN
- The wireless communication instead of wired communication using
- Wireless LANs are defined at least two devices to form a local area network using wireless communications
- Wireless local area networks usually have a Wi-Fi router or wireless access point for wireless devices, wireless devices including laptops, tablets, smart phones and wireless desktop computers
- Simply put, the wireless LAN is a local area network, but without the use of cables
CAN: campus area network LAN campus
- A campus area network is in a limited area connecting together two or more local area networks
- For example, a campus network can be a university has several buildings in the same area, forming a large network interconnected with each other, these buildings can be different faculties of the University department where each building has its own local area network, then these buildings They are connected to form a campus area network
MAN: metropolitan area network MAN
- This is a bigger than the campus network LAN network
- It is a spanning multiple buildings of a city or town network
- MAN typically a high speed connection, such as cable
- MAN is a high-speed network, to share data and resources in the city to provide services
SAN: storage area network storage area network
- SAN is a special high-speed network, which store large amounts of data and provide access to them
- SAN basic meaning is that it is a private network for data storage, a plurality of disk arrays such networks, switches, and servers
- The main reason to use a SAN SAN is not the impact of network traffic, bottlenecks such as might occur in the LAN, SAN is not a part of this is because the local area network, which is separated as a separate network
WAN: wide area network WAN
- It is the largest WAN type network, a WAN may comprise a plurality of LAN, CAN and MAN
- It is a network spanning a large geographic area, such as a country, a continent, or even a good entire planet, WAN example is the Internet