What are the components of a wide area network??

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Wide area networks also can be of many types. Although many different technologies are used to support wide area networks, all wide area networks include the following components:
* Nodes, which are the computing devices that allow workstations to connect to the network and that make the decisions about where to route a piece of data
* Some type of high-speed transmission line, which runs from one node to another
* A sub-network, which consists of the nodes and transmission lines, collected into a cohesive unit?

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