Hardware / Infrastructure 7: Wide Area Network (WAN)

A data network typically extending a LAN outside a building or beyond a campus

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A data network typically extending a LAN outside a building or beyond a campus. Typically created by using bridges or routers to connect geographically separated LANs. WANs include commercial or educational dial-up networks such as CompuServe, InterNet and BITNET.

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Hardware / Infrastructure 7.1: Frame Relay

Hardware / Infrastructure 7.2: Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)

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