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Wide area network. A wide area network ( WAN) is a telecommunications network that extends over a large geographic area. Wide area networks are often established with leased telecommunication circuits. [ 1] Businesses, as well as schools and government entities, use wide area networks to relay data to staff, students, clients, buyers and ...
The table below lists information technology initialisms and acronyms in common and current usage. These acronyms are used to discuss LAN, internet, WAN, routing and switching protocols, and their applicable organizations. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The table contains only current, common, non-proprietary initialisms that are specific to information technology.
WAN technologies generally function at the lower three layers of the OSI model: the physical layer, the data link layer, and the network layer. Enterprise private network An enterprise private network is a network that a single organization builds to interconnect its office locations (e.g., production sites, head offices, remote offices, shops ...
Hudson Volcano is a volcano in the rugged mountains of southern Chile. Lying in the Southern Volcanic Zone of the Andes, it was formed by the subduction of the oceanic Nazca Plate under the continental South American Plate. Hudson has the form of a 10-kilometre-wide (6-mile) volcanic caldera filled with ice.
The earliest organization that has since become WAN-IFRA was the FIEJ (Federation Internationale des Editeurs de Journaux et Publications, English: International Federation of Newspaper Publishers), [8] the international federation of newspaper editors founded in 1948 by survivors of the clandestine press of France and the Netherlands to fight for survival of a free press worldwide.
SD-WAN. A software-defined wide area network ( SD-WAN) is a wide area network that uses software-defined networking technology, such as communicating over the Internet using overlay tunnels which are encrypted when destined for internal organization locations. [ 1]
Wireless WAN. Wireless wide area network ( WWAN ), is a form of wireless network. The larger size of a wide area network compared to a local area network requires differences in technology. Wireless networks of different sizes deliver data in the form of telephone calls, web pages, and video streaming. A WWAN often differs from wireless local ...
WAN optimization is a collection of techniques for improving data transfer across wide area networks (WANs). In 2008, the WAN optimization market was estimated to be $1 billion, [1] and was to grow to $4.4 billion by 2014 according to Gartner, [2] a technology research firm. In 2015 Gartner estimated the WAN optimization market to be a $1.1 ...