| Abbrev. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Most agreements on definitions | ||||
| WAN | Wide Area Network | Terminology | Common | Internet is a WAN, a network that reaches the whole world, and beoynd. |
| WWAN | Wireless Wide Area Network | Terminology | Common | Wireless WAN. Using technologies such as mobile telecommunications cellular network. |
| LPWAN | Low Power Wide Area Network | Terminology | Common | Low-Power WAN. Using technologies such as Sigfox, LoRA, and Weightless. |
| MAN | Metropolitan Area Network | Terminology | Common | A network that covers a city or metropolitan area. |
| LAN, WLAN |
Local Area Network, Wireless Local Area Network |
Terminology | Common | A network that covers an office, a home. |
| PAN | Personal Area Network | Terminology | Common | A network that reaches up around 10 meters/30 ft, for interconnecting phones, tablets, desktops with mouses, keyboards, wired or wireless. |
| NFC | Near Field Communication | Technology/ies | Common | |
| Terns that has less agreements, different interpretations | ||||
| BAN | Body Area Network | Terminology | Common | |
| CAN | Campus Area Network |
Terminology | Niche | |
| CAN | Cluster Area Network | Terminology | Niche | |
| CAN | Controller Area Network | Protocol | Niche | |
| CAN | Controller Area Network | Terminology | Niche | |
| DAN | Desk Area Network | Terminology | Niche | ### |
| GAN | Global Area Network | Terminology | Niche | |
| HAN | Home Area Network | Terminology | Niche | ### |
| SAN | Server Area Network | Terminology | Niche | |
| SAN | Storage Area Network | Terminology | Niche | |
| SAN | System Area Network | Terminology | Niche | |
### Networking used for telephony - wired and wireless - consists of many different technologies over many generations and below is only a ridiculously short introduction to some.
https://www.google.com/search?q=lwpan
LPWAN, Low-Power Wide Area Network
https://www.google.com/search?q=lpwan+area+network
| WAN | Wired (WAN) | |
| Wireless WAN (WWAN) | ||
| Low-Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) | wikipedia LPWAN | |
| MAN | Wired (MAN) | |
| Wireless MAN (WMAN) | ||
| LAN | Wired (LAN) | |
| Wireless LAN (WLAN) | ||
| PAN | Wired | |
| Wireless PAN (WPAN) | Low-Power WPAN (LPWPAN) | |