Campus Area Network (CAN) - Definition, Infrastructure, and Uses

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.
As we have discussed above it is smaller than a wide area network and
multiple Local Area Network (LAN) combines in one organization or regions
to make a Campus Area Network (CAN). Therefore, whenever some one tells
you about the networks within the specific area, you can easily guess that it
is campus network.
Infrastructure of CAN (Campus Area Network)
In this kind of networking, the same technology along with the hardware is
used in different buildings of one campus or one corporation. They follow the
same terminologies like the local area networks but the difference is that
they are interconnected between the multiple buildings at the particular
location. Just imagine a university campus in which you have multiple
departments such as information technology, electronics, mass
communication and fine arts etc and in all these departments computer labs,
they have implemented the same infra -structure of hardware and other
technologies using the Local area network as the main tool, and one
message sent by one department can be accessed by the other department,
then we say that the network is following the techniques of Campus Area
Network (CAN) .
Same is the case with the corporation or organizations which have different
departments in one locality and these departments can communicate with
each other using the communication medium of CAN (Campus Area
Network). In Campus Area Networking (CAN) system the same type of
hardware means that routers, switches, hubs, cabling and even wireless