Example MANs
William Johnston Buchanan · 1999
This chapter investigates some typical Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) within a country. The UK offers an excellent model as it contains many institutions of Higher Education, which have developed high-speed MANs. Many cities around the UK have developed WANs. These networks are not based on contention networks, such as Ethernet, and are based on FDDI and ATM. Typical MANs in the UK are: