What are components of a WAN?

Answer 1

A WAN may use a similar topology as a LAN, but it uses different protocols to send packets over a wide distance. A LAN is much more limited in the distance it can send information to.

A WAN uses point-to-point connections over a wide distance, where a LAN does not cover a wide distance and will not send packets from one network to another. To get a packet from one network to another a router must be used inbetween the two networks.

Answer 2

A wide area network (WAN) - enables companies to have a closed system, that is typically spread over a number of buildings that may be either next door -or in Another Country. Communication over the WAN is usually fast (as it's not relying on shared internet speeds) - secure (because it cannot be accessed from outside the net, and doesn't rely on people having to answer telephones.

Answer 3

From the point of view of a company which hires the services, a WAN (wide area network) typically has the following three distinguishing features. Compared to a LAN, a WAN:* Works over much larger distances.

* Typically has a lower bandwidth.

* However, the MOST distinguishing characteristic of a WAN is that, whereas in a LAN a company will be the owner of its own equipment (routers, switches, cables, etc.), in a WAN the company will hire services from a third-party (an ISP).

It is simply not economically feasible - nor legal - for each individual company to tend its own cables from one side of a country to another.

Answer 4

cables