WAN
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4.9
- noun
- /wæn/
- Specialized
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red de área amplia
- End-user computing and controls related to various kinds of networks, including LANs, WANs, and intranets and extranets.
- Wide Area Network
- WAN network
Examples
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So now this crucial WAN traffic is being buried in a mountain of LAN traffic.
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Consider an application linking a large number of publishers, each publishing to fewer subscribers, all deployed across a WAN.
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Customers are paying for the analytics and reduced WAN access.
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You can view your WAN and your LAN IP from this screen as well.
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An exciting achievement last year was the expansion of the internal Wide Area Network (WAN) to include all regional offices and the Petroleum Division.
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The WAN interface is provided by the ISP and is a static IP.
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Now imagine if we were to apply NetFlow at all the LAN switch interfaces and the WAN interfaces.
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Another exciting achievement last year was the expansion of ASME's internal wide area network (WAN) permitting instantaneous electronic communications between ASME locations.
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Similarly, these servers attach many communications lines, both LANs (local-area networks) and WANs (wide-area networks).
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A WAN connects multiple offices across different cities to facilitate communication and data sharing.
Synonyms
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3.3
A system that links groups of computers in different cities or countries
A group of connected computers in different places that share data
Compounds
How Wide
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word WAN stands for wide area network, where wide means 'covering a large area' and network means 'a group of connected things'. So a WAN is a network that links smaller local networks across cities or countries.