1. PAN (Personal Area Network)

• Range is 1-100 meter
• Tech
• Bluetooth, Infrared (IrDA), Zigbee
• Transmission speed is high
• Ownership is private
• Area
• within a room
• Maintenance is easy
• Error rate depends on the distance
• Cost is very low

2. LAN (Local Area Network)

• Range is up to 2 km
• Tech
• Ethernet and Wi-Fi
• Transmission speed is very high
• Area
• within office building
• Ownership is private
• Maintenance is easy
• Error rate and cost is less
• Like PCO

3. CAN (Campus Area Network)

• Range is 1-5 km
• Tech
• Ethernet
• Transmission speed is high
• Area
• within university, corporate offices
• Ownership is private
• Maintenance is moderate
• Error rate and cost is moderate

4. MAN (Metropolitan Area Network)

• Range is 5-50 km
• Tech
• FDDI (Fibre Distributed Data Interface), CDDI (Copper Distributed Data Interface ), ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode)
• Transmission speed is average
• Area
• within a city
• Ownership can be public as well as private
• Maintenance is difficult
• Error rate and cost is high
• Like STD

5. WAN (Wide Area Network)

• Range is above 50 km
• Tech
• Leased Line (companies like Jio, Airtel, etc.), Dial-Up
• Transmission speed is low
• Area
• within a country
• Ownership is private or public
• Maintenance is very difficult
• Error rate and cost is very high
• Like ISP