A Metropolitan Area Network, or MAN, is a series of LANs (Local Area Networks) that are interconnected through various means in a Metropolitan area such as a city and its subburbs. If a company ...

WANs also transmit data at slower speeds than LANs. WANs are also structurally similar to metropolitan area networks (MANs), but provide communications links for distances greater than 50 kilometers.

The internet is a WAN because, using ISPs, it connects many smaller local area networks or metro area networks. On a smaller scale, a business may have a WAN comprised of cloud services ...