CAN

Campus Area Network (CAN)

"Smaller than a Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)"

• CAN it's a mid-size geographical region.

• On a MAN all the connectivity between sites is gonna be handled by a service provider.

• On a CAN the infrastructure within the campus is typically maintained by whoever owns the facility

  • If it's a university for example, the university runs their own fiber between all the buildings between all the links and is maintained by the university.
  • We do not have to pay a monthly fee for using someone's fiber.

• LANs connected together

  • They are just using an owned backend infrastructure, no ISP.

• College campus, business park, industrial, agricultural

• High-speed connectivity

  • The equipment that you put on either side of these lengths, that's what dictates transfer speeds

• Scalable

  • Just keep buying land, equipment and keep growing it because everything is under my control.