MAN (Metropolitan Area Network)

—A metropolitan area network, or MAN, covers a city

—a MAN could be

—A telco service that provides data transport across an urban area using ATM over SONET technology.

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—Several local area networks (LANs) connected across an urban area using a high-speed fiber-optic backbone.

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—Several connected networks within a city, forming a citywide network for a specific government organization or corporation.

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—Any network bigger than a LAN but smaller than a wide area network (WAN).

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—Any network that spans more than a single building.

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—A Distributed Queue Dual Bus architecture network based on the IEEE 802.6 standard of Project 802 (this is the formal definition of a MAN, but it is now obsolete).