Network

A wide variety of systems of interconnected components are called networks.

A computer network is a system for communication among two or more computers.

Computer networks may be categorized with respect to range:

- wireless PAN (WPAN) - wireless LAN (WLAN)
 * personal area network (PAN)
 * local area network (LAN)

- metropolitan area network (MAN)

- wide area network (WAN)

- tiny area network (TAN)

Network

see also: Subnet, LAN, WAN