Campus area network topology

A campus area network (CAN) is a network of multiple interconnected local area networks (LAN) in a limited geographical area. A CAN is smaller than a wide area network (WAN) or metropolitan area network (MAN).

A CAN is also known as a corporate area network (CAN).

In most cases, CANs own shared network devices and data exchange media. CAN benefits are as follows:

• Cost-effective
• Wireless, versus cable
• Multidepartmental network access
• Single shared data transfer rate (DTR)

The following are examples of CAN implementations:

• Stanford University's SUNet network
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Project Athena

Synonyms

Corporate Area Network (CAN)

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Design and Performance Investigation of Campus Area Network (CAN) Based on Different Routing Protocols

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• Oct 2018

• 
  Chowdhury Mohammad
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  Chowdhury Mohammad Masum Refat
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  Rabiul Hasan
• [...]
• Gafur

A Campus Area Network (CAN) can be characterized as a Local Area Network (LAN). Generally, it is a network which connects various entities of an office e.g. various infrastructural entities of a university campus. In this paper, it is designed a new CAN topology and analyzed the performance of CAN by considering Routing Information Protocol (RIP),...

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