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Classification of Networks

LANs cover small areas like homes or offices, connecting a few users to a local server. MANs span larger areas like cities and connect multiple LANs, providing transmission of data, voice and video. WANs connect LANs and MANs across broad geographic areas, allowing communication between locations. The key difference between these network types is the size of the geographic area they cover, with LANs smallest and WANs largest.

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Classification of Networks

LANs cover small areas like homes or offices, connecting a few users to a local server. MANs span larger areas like cities and connect multiple LANs, providing transmission of data, voice and video. WANs connect LANs and MANs across broad geographic areas, allowing communication between locations. The key difference between these network types is the size of the geographic area they cover, with LANs smallest and WANs largest.

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Classification

of
Networks
The Network allows computers to connect
and communicate with different computers via
any medium. LAN, MAN and WAN are the
three major types of the network designed to
operate over the area they cover. There are some
similarities and dissimilarities between them.
One of the major differences is the geographical
area they cover, . LAN covers the smallest
area; MAN covers an area larger than LAN
and WAN comprises the largest of all.
Local Area Network (LAN) –

A local area network (LAN) is a group of computers


and peripheral devices that share a common
communications line or wireless link to a server within
a distinct geographic area. A local area network may
serve as few as two or three users in a home-office or
several hundred users in a corporation’s central office.
Home owners and information technology (IT)
administrators set up LANs so that network nodes can
share resources such as printers or network storage.
Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) –

The MAN network is a high-speed network


that covers larger geographic area such as city or
districts than local area network (LAN) but smaller
than wide area network (WAN) and providing the
ability to integrate multiple services through the
transmission of data, voice, and video, on
transmission media such as copper, fiber optics,
and microwaves.
Wide Area Network (WAN) –

A wide area network (WAN) is a network that


exists over a large-scale geographical area. A
WAN connects different smaller networks,
including local area networks (LANs) and metro
area networks (MANs). This ensures that
computers and users in one location can
communicate with computers and users in other
locations. WAN implementation can be done
either with the help of the public transmission
system or a private network.
Transmission
Technology
The transmission means, is
that sending a signal from one
location to another.
Transmission technologies refer
to the physical
layer protocol such as
modulation, demodulation, line
coding, error control etc.
Signal Transmission

In telecommunications, Signal
transmission is the process of sending
and propagating
an analogue or digital information signal
over a physical point-to-point or point-to-
multipoint transmission medium, either
wired, optical fiber or wireless.
Digital Signal

A signal in which the original


information is converted into a
string of bits before being
transmitted. A radio signal, for
example, will be either on or off.
Digital signals can be sent for
long distances and suffer less
interference than analog signals.
Analog Signal

An analog signal is any continuous signal for which the


time-varying feature of the signal is a representation of some
other time varying quantity that is analogous to another time
varying signal. For example, in an analog audio signal, the
instantaneous voltage of the signal varies continuously with
the pressure of the sound waves. It differs from a digital signal,
in which the continuous quantity is a representation of a
sequence of discrete values which can only take on one of a
finite number of values. The term analog signal usually refers
to electrical signals;
however, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, human speech, and
other systems may also convey or be considered analog signals.

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