University:
California State University, Northridge
Course:
COMP 324 | Computer Networking and Security
Academic year:

2021
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221

Pages:

2
Author:

sonalhava9qv

A campus network is an enterprise network (hundreds or thousands of users) where we have one or more LANs in one or multiple buildings. Everything is geographically close to each other so we typically use Ethernet (and Wireless) for connectivity. Typically the company owns everything on the campus hardware, cabling, etc. A campus area network (CAN) is a computer network that spans a limited geographic area. CANs interconnect multiple local area networks (LAN) within an educational or corporate campus. Most CANs connect to the public Internet. CANs are smaller than metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN), which stretch over large geographic areas.