MAN is designed to extend over the entire city
. It may be a single network as a cable TV
network or it may be means of connecting a number of LAN's into a larger network so
that resources may be shared as shown in Fig
For example, a company can use a
MAN to connect the LAN's in all its offices in a city
. MAN is wholly owned and operated
by a private company or may be a service provided by a public company
.
Figure Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN)
The main reason for distinguishing Mans as a special category is that a standard has
been adopted for them. It is DB (Distributed Queue Dual Bus) or IEEE
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