Metropolitan Breadth Networks
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A burghal breadth arrangement (MAN) is a amalgam amid a LAN and a WAN. Like a WAN, it connects two or added LANs in the aforementioned geographic area. A MAN, for example, ability affix two altered barrio or offices in the aforementioned city. However, admitting WANs about accommodate low- to medium-speed access, MANs accommodate accelerated connections, such as T1 (1.544Mbps) and optical services.
The optical casework provided accommodate SONET (the Synchronous Optical Arrangement standard) and SDH (the Synchronous Digital Hierarchy standard). With these optical services, carriers can accommodate accelerated services, including ATM and Gigabit Ethernet. These two optical casework (covered in Chapter 2) accommodate speeds alignment into the hundreds or bags of megabits per additional (Mbps). Devices acclimated to accommodate access for MANs accommodate high-end routers, ATM switches, and optical switches.
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