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Let’s see that the difference between LAN, MAN and WAN: LAN stands for Local Area Network, LAN’s ownership is private. The transmission speed of LAN is high. The propagation delay is short in LAN. There is less congestion in LAN. LAN’s design and maintenance is easy. There is more fault tolerance in LAN. Used for college school, hospital MAN stands for Metropolitan Area Network, MAN’s ownership can be private or public. While the transmission speed of MAN is average. There is moderate propagation delay in MAN. While there is more congestion in MAN. While MAN’s design and maintenance is difficult than LAN. While there is less fault tolerance. Used for small town and cities WAN stands for Wide area network. While WAN also might not be owned by one organization. Can be private and public Whereas the Transmission speed of WAN is low. Whereas there is long propagation delay. Whereas there is more congestion than MAN in WAN. Whereas WAN’s design and maintenance is also difficult than LAN as well MAN. In WAN, there is also less fault tolerance. Used for country/continent,

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