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Chapter NineIntroduction to Metropolitan Area Networks and Wide Area NetworksData Communications and Computer Networks: A Business User’s ApproachEighth Edition© 2016. Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved.**After reading this chapter,you should be able to:Distinguish local area networks, metropolitan area networks, and wide area networks from each otherIdentify the characteristics of metropolitan area networks and compare to LANs and WANsDescribe how circuit-switched, datagram packet-switched, and virtual circuit packet-switched networks workIdentify the differences between connection-oriented and connectionless networksData Communications and Computer Networks: A Business User’s Approach, Eighth Edition© 2016. Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved.**After reading this chapter,you should be able to:Describe the differences between centralized and distributed routingDescribe the differences between static and adaptive routingDocument the main characteristics of flooding and use hop count and hop limit in a simple exampleDiscuss the basic concepts of network congestion, including quality of serviceData Communications and Computer Networks: A Business User’s Approach, Eighth Edition© 2016. Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved.