"Local network," "local area network" and "LAN" are synonymous. The local network standards are TCP/IP, Ethernet and Wi-Fi. See LAN. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...

A LAN is geographically confined to a single site. A WAN is spread over a wide geographical area. A wide area network (WAN) is a network that is spread over a wide geographical area. It can cover ...

A Metropolitan Area Network, or MAN, is a series of LANs (Local Area Networks) that are interconnected through various means in a Metropolitan area such as a city and its subburbs. If a company ...

Essentially all networks are data networks, including local area networks (LANs), public and private wide area networks (WANs) and the Internet, the global wide area network. See LAN and WAN.

The internet is a WAN because, using ISPs, it connects many smaller local area ... a wireless area network, though it's most ...