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wide area network
(redirected from Wide-area network)

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See WAN.


(networking)Wide Area Network - (WAN) A network, usually constructed with serial lines, extending over distances greater than one kilometre.

Compare local area network, metropolitan area network.

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AT&T has deployed a wide-area network (WAN) that provides an integrated communications platform serving more than 300 G-P locations across the United States.
Installing firewall - computers that filter the communication between private networks and the Internet - will protect an office practice's local area network and a hospital or health care system's wide-area network from unwanted hackers.
To take full advantage of these applications, organizations are adopting Time Warner Cable's carrier-class Ethernet services which enable them to extend their LAN environment across the wide-area network.
 
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