Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer
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Isn't it possible to access data from servers in other countries while using a LAN instead of a WAN?
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How common is MAN?
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@connorsoliver said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:
Isn't it possible to access data from servers in other countries while using a LAN instead of a WAN?
Not really. Anything that can stretch that far becomes a WAN by definition. Anything that goes past your property line, basically. You can make a virtual LAN on top of a WAN, but it is always a WAN creating the physical links.
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@connorsoliver said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:
How common is MAN?
It's just a term. One that they thought would be common, but isn't. Really no one used it and it's just silly. LAN and WAN still describe all of the real types that matter. The idea of a MAN is kind of meaningless. So while they kind of exist regularly, no one talks about them.
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@scottalanmiller said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:
@connorsoliver said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:
How common is MAN?
It's just a term. One that they thought would be common, but isn't. Really no one used it and it's just silly. LAN and WAN still describe all of the real types that matter. The idea of a MAN is kind of meaningless. So while they kind of exist regularly, no one talks about them.
It is also implied that it is something managed by the ISP (aka telcos back when it was a term actually used).
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The whole LAN, WAN, MAN thing is even more ridiculous now that it isn't even based on location anymore.
I can have a logical LAN across the globe and Azure or AWS. It can even be a private network with no connectivity outside itself.
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@JaredBusch said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:
@scottalanmiller said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:
@connorsoliver said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:
How common is MAN?
It's just a term. One that they thought would be common, but isn't. Really no one used it and it's just silly. LAN and WAN still describe all of the real types that matter. The idea of a MAN is kind of meaningless. So while they kind of exist regularly, no one talks about them.
It is also implied that it is something managed by the ISP (aka telcos back when it was a term actually used).
Used to imply, yeah. Today it is often down by owned wireless. But the first MAN I worked on was one we built privately in DC. No telecoms involved. That was early 2000.
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@IRJ said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:
I can have a logical LAN across the globe and Azure or AWS. It can even be a private network with no connectivity outside itself.
Although there are WAN links under all of that. No different than how we had global LANs in the 1990s via VPNs or similar.
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@scottalanmiller said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:
@JaredBusch said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:
@scottalanmiller said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:
@connorsoliver said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:
How common is MAN?
It's just a term. One that they thought would be common, but isn't. Really no one used it and it's just silly. LAN and WAN still describe all of the real types that matter. The idea of a MAN is kind of meaningless. So while they kind of exist regularly, no one talks about them.
It is also implied that it is something managed by the ISP (aka telcos back when it was a term actually used).
Used to imply, yeah. Today it is often down by owned wireless. But the first MAN I worked on was one we built privately in DC. No telecoms involved. That was early 2000.
First one I worked with was in some Citibank offices in the mid-late 90's in St. Louis. Telecoms involved only as far as providing the clean pairs of copper. Otherwise, Citi did it all themselves also.
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@JaredBusch said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:
@scottalanmiller said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:
@JaredBusch said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:
@scottalanmiller said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:
@connorsoliver said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:
How common is MAN?
It's just a term. One that they thought would be common, but isn't. Really no one used it and it's just silly. LAN and WAN still describe all of the real types that matter. The idea of a MAN is kind of meaningless. So while they kind of exist regularly, no one talks about them.
It is also implied that it is something managed by the ISP (aka telcos back when it was a term actually used).
Used to imply, yeah. Today it is often down by owned wireless. But the first MAN I worked on was one we built privately in DC. No telecoms involved. That was early 2000.
First one I worked with was in some Citibank offices in the mid-late 90's in St. Louis. Telecoms involved only as far as providing the clean pairs of copper. Otherwise, Citi did it all themselves also.
I was similar. AT&T provided the fiber in case, but we managed everything else.
