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• Personal Area Networks (PAN) • Used for communication among devices (including
• Local Area Networks (LAN) telephones and PDAs) close to one person
• Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) • Reach is typically a few meters
• Wide Area Networks (WAN) • Can be used for communication among the personal
• Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) devices themselves (intrapersonal communication),
or for connecting to a higher level network and the
Internet (via uplink)
• Example: Bluetooth network
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• Covers a local area, like a home, office, or group of • Large, usually spanning a city
buildings • Typically use wireless infrastructure or optical fiber
• Much higher data rates than WANs connections to link their sites
• Have smaller geographic range than WANs • Might be owned and operated by a single
• Could be wired or wireless organization;
• Example: network in a university campus eg • Will often provide means for internetworking of local
university or in a workplace. networks
• Example: Wimax
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• Covers a broad geographical area • The linking of two or more computers using wirless
connection.
• Used to connect LANs together, so that users and • Uses radio communication to accomplish the same
computers in one location can communicate with functionality that a wired LAN has.
users and computers in other distant locations • IEEE 802.11 (WiFi)
• E.g linking different sites of a company or university. • 10-100 Mbps, 1.5km
– 802.11 (1997): upto 2 Mbps, 2.4 GHz
• Largest and most well-known example is the Internet
– 802.11a (1999): upto 54 Mbps, 5 GHz, ~75 feet outdoor
• WANs are most often built using leased lines – 802.11b (1999): upto 11 Mbps, 2.4 GHz, ~150 feet indoor, 300
ft outdoor [most popular]
– 802.11g (2003): upto 54 Mbps, 2.4 GHz, ~150 feet [backward
compatible with 802.11b]
– 802.11n – 2.4GHz and 5GHz, up to 600Mbps
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