What is "WAN"?

What is "WAN"?

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WAN stands for "wide area network." This would be computers that are on different local segments and that are only interconnected because they are on the World Wide Web. They're on the Internet, and their only connection to each other is through that wide area network. They are not on the same branch; they are not on the same local segment.