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WAN definition - telecom
A network that covers a wide geographic area such as a state, province, region, or country.The Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) is a voice-oriented WAN.The Internet is a data-oriented public WAN.WANs can serve to interconnect LANs and MANs. See also LAN and MAN.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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