MAN Full Form Name
Full Form of MAN:
Metropolitan Area Network
MAN Full Form is Metropolitan
Area Network. MAN is a computer data network that covers certain
areas of a metropolitan city or even the whole city. According to its
geographical range, MAN is considered to be larger than a LAN (Local Area
Network) , but it is smaller than WAN (Wide Area Network).
It is communication networking
technology which is mainly used in municipal or metropolitan areas so that
every user, residing inside the specified metropolitan area, are interconnected
and it also makes sure that they can have access to browse internet
comfortably. A MAN can effectively contribute to the function, range and
efficiency of a WAN. A MAN is usually constructed by optical fiber cable or
other digital media. A MAN is usually characterized by the high speeds of the
connection it provides.
Now-a-days, if we discuss about
the construction of A MAN, we can find that Ethernet based connections, like
metro Ethernet, are coming into use increasingly instead of ATM( Asynchronous
Transfer Mode), SMDS (Switched Multi-megabit Data Service), and FDDI (Fiber
Distributed Data Interface). A MAN can be used to interconnect several LANs by
bridging them with the help of backbone lines. Most of the large metropolitan
cities use this type of network.