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MAN definition - telecom
A public data network that serves an entire metropolitan area, or perhaps a portion of a metropolitan area such as a city or a suburb, commonly serving to interconnect Local Area Networks (LANs). A number of carriers offer Metropolitan Ethernet services, for example. MANs can be interconnected across a Wide Area Network (WAN). See also LAN and WAN.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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