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 ...

At its core, the Internet is really just a bunch of computers networked together. There’s no reason that there can’t be other separate networks of computers, or that we all have to tie every computer ...

Given the combination of the economic malaise and the sensationalism that surrounds topics such as cloud computing and server virtualization, it is possible to surmise that nothing of significance is ...

Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) have emerged as a pivotal technology in modern communication systems, facilitating extended-range connectivity while minimising power consumption for Internet of ...

Wide Area Networks (WANs), a pioneering innovation of the 1970s, provide businesses to this day with dedicated, secure private enterprise networks that are manageable, scalable, flexible, and ...

Touting its global network that spans more than 2 million miles of fiber, 33 subsea cables and 202 points of presence, Google LLC’s Cloud division today launched Cloud WAN, a fully managed enterprise ...

Before Wi-Fi became ubiquitous, Ethernet was the way to link devices together. By running Ethernet cables in a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN), you could send traffic back and ...

The onset of the pandemic accelerated global firms’ plans to redefine how their businesses operated, in particular how they managed their wide area networks (WANs), with software-defined WANs ...

It’s not new technology, but Vanco is using its virtual private networking skills to provide a new wide-area Ethernet offering that could be a quick and relatively inexpensive way for enterprises to ...