Wide Area Network
-Connects several LANs that may be far apart
-WAN may consist of connections to a company's headquarters, branch offices and cloud services
-Less speed
-Lower data transfer rate
Local Area Network
-Is a group of computers and network devices connected together in the same building
-Computers and other mobile devices use LAN connection
-Tend to have fewer problems
-Higher data transfer rate
Metropolitan Area Network
-Larger network that usually spans several buildings in the same city or town
-Bridging with backbone lines
-Interconnection of networks
-small geographical areas
-wide spread of an area
-both difficult
-can be private or public
-size is limited
-high-speed
-they're all networks
-all use megabits
-all private
Network Comparison
-LAN and WAN don't have a lot of similarities
-LAN and WAN had the same amount of differnces
-Hard to find similarities between WAN and MAN
-LAN was the easiest one
-Hard