A new medium access control protocol for MANs named DQCA(Distributed Queue Cyclic Access)is presented in this paper.When the users of DQCA MAN transfer long files
the network will reach a fair steady state which is after a transient period. There is no bandwidth wastage in the network.The transient period is shorter than that of DQDB. DQCA MAN has the flexibility in bandwidth allocation. Computer simulations illustrate the access characteristics of DQCA.