DEFINITION OF WIDE AREA NETWORK

WIDE AREA NETWORK (WAN)

DEFINITION

A wide area network is two or more local area networks that are connected together over a wide geographic area. This may be networks located across town, across the state, across the country or across the world. To implement a wide area network, you will need to contract with a telecommunications company to establish the data links.

TYPE OF WAN

-ENTERPRISE PRIVATE NETWORK  (EPN)

AN enterprise private network is a network built by an enterprise to interconnect various company sites such as production sites,head officein order to share computer resource

-VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK  (VPN)

A virtual private network is a computer network in whick some of the links between nodes are carried by open connection or virtual circuit by open connection or virtual circuit in some larger network instead of by physical wires