The terminology used in wide area networking is extensive, and for those of us who were baptized in data networks in the 1980s and 1990s, much of this terminology appears archaic, with its roots ...

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. The easiest way ...

A WAN or Wide Area Network is when networks connect to another network. The internet is the biggest example of a WAN. It is such a big network it is often called the network of networks.