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CNT Books has expanded considerably since you got the network up and running three years

ago. It now occupies an entire floor in the building, and its LAN has grown to include several
servers and more than 60 workstations.
CNT Books has recently purchased another book company and needs more space and
computers. Expansion plans include leasing another floor four stories above the current offices
in the same building and adding 35 workstations and at least one more server immediately,
with additional equipment purchases expected. [15 marks]
i. What type of network is called for—LAN, WAN, MAN, or internetwork?

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CNT Books has expanded considerably since you got the network up and running three years ago. It now occupies an entire floor in the building, and its LAN has grown to include several servers and more than 60 workstations.

CNT Books has recently purchased another book company and needs more space and computers. Expansion plans include leasing another floor four stories above the current offices in the same building and adding 35 workstations and at least one more server immediately, with additional equipment purchases expected.

The type of networking CNT Book will use is WAN.

LAN

A local area network (LAN) is a group of computers and peripheral devices that share a common communications line or wireless link to a server within a distinct geographic area. A local area network may serve as few as two or three users in a home-office or several hundred users in a corporation's central office

WAN

A wide area network (WAN) is a geographically distributed private telecommunications network that interconnects multiple local area networks (LANs). A LAN is a group of computers and network devices which are all connected to each other, typically from within a short relative geographical distance.

MAN

A metropolitan area network is a computer network that interconnects users with computer resources in a geographic region of the size of a metropolitan area.

internetworking

Internetworking is the process or technique of connecting different networks by using intermediary devices such as routers or gateway devices. Internetworking ensures data communication among networks owned and operated by different entities using a common data communication and the Internet Routing Protocol. internetworking is not a network type but it is a process or technique of connecting different networks by using intermediary devices.

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