What is MAN? - Explained

MAN is a popular network type at the industrial level. The concept of MAN is used by many technology companies to provide solutions that are solid and secured with the demand.

What is MAN?

MAN stands for Metropolitan Area Network or a network that is limited to a certain metropolitan area.

The Metropolitan area is a Business office area that does have a large number of offices in a city or in a particular area. 

Internet service providers usually strengthen the metropolitan area with high speed and larger infrastructures because the return on investment is higher in such areas. 

The Metropolitan area network can be created by using wired and wireless network mediums. If there's an organization or a larger enterprise that is interested in connecting multiple offices of the same organization, the most common method is creating a metropolitan area network covering the multiple offices. 

On a scale, MAN is much similar to LAN but the distribution of the network is much higher compared with the local area network. To set up a metropolitan area network, the enterprises that want the connectivity in between multiple office spaces do not like to maintain the connectivity and bare the infrastructure setup fee. Instead, the large enterprises lease or rent the connectivity from the local internet service providers or technology vendors to get the solution. By using so, the time to market is quicker and easy compared with setting up the entire system from scratch.