Advantages And Disadvantages Of WAN

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WAN: WAN is a computer network spanning a relatively large geographical area. WAN stands for: Wide area Network. WAN consists of more than two local area networks (LAN) LAN is also a computer network but unlike WAN it spans in a relatively small area such places as a home, school building, office building or computer laboratory. The most well-known or the most popular WAN is the internet. Unlike LAN, WAN is usually not owned by a single organisation or company but exists under distributed or collective ownership. WAN is created by the connection between two or more local area networks.
For example if you call the warehouse and ask if a product is in stock the customer service provider would look up on the computer and check if they have it in their warehouse otherwise through WAN they are able to see which warehouse in Auckland have the product and refer you to it, so all the warehouse in Auckland each are small local area networks and they are connected together to form a Wide area network and from there that is connected to all the warehouses in the country making an even wider WAN connection making it possible to receive and give data from anywhere across the country. LAN is connected to WAN with a device called a router.

Over the last couple of years Network connection methods have been growing better and better so that the internet is easier to access and much more convenient. About 10 years ago it would have been hard to play games on the computer because of the speed of the connection and signals were received slower, But now days you don’t have to wait for a video to load or to receive a message from across the world. Below I have listed three different types of connections and explained their how they work.
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TCPIP
TCP/IP stands for Transmission Control protocol/Internet Protocol. TCP/IP is aone of the communication language or protocols of the internet. It is used as a protocol for private networks such as an internet or extranet. every computer is given a copy of the TCP/IP program when it gains direct access to the internet. TCP/IP has two layers; the higher layer and the lower layer
The higher layer which is the Transmission Control Protocol, maintains the assembling of files or messages into smaller packets when they are delivered over the internet and are then received by a TCP layer on the other computer. The lower layer which is the Internet Protocol, is designed to handle the address part of the individual packets to make sure that it gets to its destination.

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