Campus Area Network (CAN)

A campus area network, or CAN, is a large network that connects a number of smaller local area networks together in a limited geographical area. This type of network is commonly found on college and university campuses.

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Campus Area Network (CAN)

Campus Area Network (CAN) is a computer network. It is made up of two or more Local Area Networks (LANs) within a limited area. It ran cover many buildings in an area. The main feature of Campus Area Network (CAN) is that all of the computers which are connected together have some relationship to each other. For example, different building in a campus can be connected using Campus Area Network (CAN). It will help to interconnect academic departments, library and computer laboratories. Campus Area Network (CAN) is larger than a Local Area network (LAN) but smaller than Wide Area Network (WAN). Wires, wireless or some other technology can be used to connect these computers.

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CAN Campus Area Network

Also Called Controller Area Network, or sometimes Cluster Area Network
A campus area network known as (CAN) is used to inter-connect networks in limited geographical locality like university campus, military bases, or organizational campuses etc. It can be taken as the metropolitan network that has the specific settings at the small area just like a computer lab in the university

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Campus Network

A campus network is a building or group of buildings all connected into one enterprise network that consists of many local-area networks (LANs). A campus is generally a portion of a company (or the whole company) that is constrained to a fixed geographic area.

The distinct characteristic of a campus environment is that the company that owns the campus network usually owns the physical wires deployed in the campus. The campus network topology is primarily LAN technology connecting all the end systems within the building. Campus networks generally use LAN technologies, such as Ethernet, Token Ring, Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). The Enterprise Composite Network Model. As shown in the follow figure.

Example of a Campus Network

A large campus with groups of buildings can also use WAN technology to connect the buildings. Although the wiring and protocols of a campus might be based on WAN technology, they do not share the WAN constraint of the high cost of bandwidth. After the wire is installed, bandwidth is inexpensive because the company owns the wires and there is no recurring cost to a service provider. However, upgrading the physical wiring can be expensive.

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Campus-Area Networks (Networking)

Campus-area networks (CANs) provide high-speed connections between several hundred to several thousand users located within a group of buildings or floors and connected to various local-area networks (LANs). Typically, optical fiber is used for the connections. To ensure high availability for mission-critical applications, a Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) is the preferred type of network for the campus environment because of its self-healing, dual ring architecture (Figure 22). It is also capable of handling Ethernet and token ring traffic reliably. A drawback of FDDI is that there are no plans to upgrade it to gigabit speeds.

Gigabit Ethernet can also be used to build campus-area networks. This is a good choice if the organization has already standardized on Ethernet/Fast Ethernet because Gigabit Ethernet switches can simply be dropped into the existing environment to interconnect LANs in different buildings. If the organization has standardized using token ring, then a High-Speed Token Ring (HSTR) backbone would be the best choice. HSTR also provides an upgrade path to Gigabit Token Ring.

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A campus area network (CAN) is a network of multiple interconnected local area networks (LAN) in a limited geographical area. A CAN is smaller than a wide area network (WAN) or metropolitan area network (MAN).

A CAN is also known as a corporate area network (CAN).

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A Campus Area Network (CAN) is a computer network that links the buildings and consists of two or more local area networks (LANs) within the limited geographical area. It can be the college campus, enterprise campus, office buildings, military base, and industrial complex. CAN is one of the type of MAN (Metropolitan Area Network) on the area smaller than MAN.

Campus Area Network - CAN
A campus area network known as (CAN) is used to inter-connect networks in limited geographical locality like university campus, military bases, or organizational campuses etc.  It can be taken as the metropolitan network that has the specific settings at the small area just like a computer lab in the university.
CAN (Campus Area Network) area is no doubt larger than a local area network but it is still smaller then a wide area network. These networks are designed for the particular place that hits the highest point level. For example, multiple labs, multiple offices in the buildings etc. most of the time, this term is referred as the university campus but when it is used at organizational level, we call it corporate campus network.