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  2. What is a WAN? | WAN vs. LAN - Cloudflare

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    A wide area network or WAN is a network that extends over a large geographic area, connecting multiple LANs. Learn how WANs work and compare WANs vs. LANs.

  3. Wide area network - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. What is WAN | Wide Area Network Definition - CompTIA

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    A wide area network (also known as WAN), is a large network of information that is not tied to a single location. WANs can facilitate communication, the sharing of information and much more between devices from around the world through a WAN provider.

  5. What Is a WAN? Wide-Area Network - Cisco

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    In its simplest form, a wide-area network (WAN) is a collection of local-area networks (LANs) or other networks that communicate with one another. A WAN is essentially a network of networks, with the Internet the world's largest WAN.

  6. What Is a Wide Area Network (WAN)? - Spiceworks

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    A wide area network (WAN) is a connected collection of telecommunication networks distributed across a large geographic area that allows the component networks to exchange data within the group. This article discusses types of WAN, the architecture components of a WAN, and ten best practices for WAN implementation.

  7. WANs connect smaller networks across long distances, and their architecture, protocols and technologies have evolved to their latest incarnation, SD-WAN.

  8. Wide-area network (WAN) optimization is a collection of techniques that improve WAN performance metrics such as throughput, congestion, and latency. WAN design, technology choices, and traffic flow arrangements all affect WAN performance.

  9. Wide Area Network (WAN) - Online Tutorials Library

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    A wide area network (WAN) is a computer network that covers a large geographical area comprising a region, a country, a continent or even the whole world. WAN includes the technologies to transmit data, image, audio and video information over long distances and among different LANs and MANs.

  10. What Is a Wide Area Network (WAN)? - Lifewire

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    A wide area network spans a large geographic area such as a city, state, or country. It can be private to connect parts of a business, or it can be public to connect smaller networks. Dong Wenjie / Getty Images. How a WAN Works. The easiest way to understand a WAN is to think of the internet, the world's largest WAN.

  11. WAN (wide area network) - TechTarget

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    A wide area network (WAN) is a geographically distributed private telecommunications network that interconnects multiple local area networks (LANs). A LAN is a group of computers and network devices that are connected to each other, typically within a short relative geographical distance.