The WAN is a place in the network that aggregates various types, speeds, and links running a disparate set of protocols together crossing metropolitan, state, and even country boundaries. The largest ...

Choosing the right layout for your business network is highly important, as poorly-designed networks can create speed and instability problems across your IT systems. Although they differ greatly in ...

As regular readers may recall, Comcast is my broadband Internet (WAN) service provider. And regular readers may also recall that MoCA is one of the LAN technologies in current use in my home ...

If you take a look at your wireless router , you may see the abbreviations LAN and WAN, which are often next to some of the ports on the device. LAN stands for local area network, and WAN stands for ...

As recently as a year and a half ago we both regarded cloud computing as more of a media event than anything that was real and that would impact mainstream IT organizations. That is no longer the case ...

Different types of private networks are distinguished based on their sizes (in terms of the number of machines), data transfer speeds, and reach. Private networks are networks that belong to a single ...

Software-defined networking has a role to play in the local and wide area -- just make sure you know the distinctions. A growing misconception is that software-defined networking (SDN) is a ...

Over the past five years or so, IPSec has emerged as the leading standard for building encrypted virtual private network (VPN) connections. FreeS/WAN (www.freeswan.org), the free secure wide area ...

Powerline networking, whether as a means of potentially bringing Internet access to the masses (along with power usage monitoring and control to them and their utility companies) or for connecting LAN ...