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The government and businesses use Wide Area Networks to be able to connect devices in large geographical areas. Companies can use it to store private information and network for commerce purposes.

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What network does virgin mobile use?

In the usa virgin mobile uses the sprint pcs network and everywhere else it uses the tmobile network


Which network uses the same infrastructure to carry voice data and video?

A Converged network is used to carry all three.


Which mobile network uses 07864 as prefix?

O2 in the United Kingdom.


What Kind of network virgin mobile uses?

Virgin Mobile is powered by Sprint/Nextel.


What is the difference between the lan wan man?

Local area networkA local area network (LAN) is a network that connects computers and devices in a limited geographical area such as home, school, computer laboratory, office building, or closely positioned group of buildings. Each computer or device on the network is a node. Current wired LANs are most likely to be based on Ethernet technology, although new standards like ITU-T G.hn also provide a way to create a wired LAN using existing home wires (coaxial cables, phone lines and power lines).[2] Typical library network, in a branching tree topology and controlled access to resourcesAll interconnected devices must understand the network layer (layer 3), because they are handling multiple subnets (the different colors). Those inside the library, which have only 10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet connections to the user device and a Gigabit Ethernet connection to the central router, could be called "layer 3 switches" because they only have Ethernet interfaces and must understand IP. It would be more correct to call them access routers, where the router at the top is a distribution router that connects to the Internet and academic networks' customer access routers.The defining characteristics of LANs, in contrast to WANs (Wide Area Networks), include their higher data transfer rates, smaller geographic range, and no need for leased telecommunication lines. Current Ethernet or other IEEE 802.3 LAN technologies operate at speeds up to 10 Gbit/s. This is the data transfer rate. IEEE has projects investigating the standardization of 40 and 100 Gbit/s.[3]Personal area networkA personal area network (PAN) is a computer network used for communication among computer and different information technological devices close to one person. Some examples of devices that are used in a PAN are personal computers, printers, fax machines, telephones, PDAs, scanners, and even video game consoles. A PAN may include wired and wireless devices. The reach of a PAN typically extends to 10 meters.[4] A wired PAN is usually constructed with USB and Firewire connections while technologies such as Bluetooth and infrared communication typically form a wireless PAN.Home area networkA home area network (HAN) is a residential LAN which is used for communication between digital devices typically deployed in the home, usually a small number of personal computers and accessories, such as printers and mobile computing devices. An important function is the sharing of Internet access, often a broadband service through a CATV or Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) provider. It can also be referred as an office area network (OAN).Wide area networkA wide area network (WAN) is a computer network that covers a large geographic area such as a city, country, or spans even intercontinental distances, using a communications channel that combines many types of media such as telephone lines, cables, and air waves. A WAN often uses transmission facilities provided by common carriers, such as telephone companies. WAN technologies generally function at the lower three layers of the OSI reference model: the physical layer, the data link layer, and the network layer. Campus networkA campus network is a computer network made up of an interconnection of local area networks (LAN's) within a limited geographical area. The networking equipments (switches, routers) and transmission media (optical fiber, copper plant, Cat5 cabling etc.) are almost entirely owned (by the campus tenant / owner: an enterprise, university, government etc.).In the case of a university campus-based campus network, the network is likely to link a variety of campus buildings including; academic departments, the university library and student residence halls.Metropolitan area networkA Metropolitan area network is a large computer network that usually spans a city or a large campus. Sample EPN made of Frame relay WAN connections and dialup remote access.Sample VPN used to interconnect 3 offices and remote usersEnterprise private networkAn enterprise private network is a network build by an enterprise to interconnect various company sites, e.g., production sites, head offices, remote offices, shops, in order to share computer resources.Virtual private networkA virtual private network (VPN) is a computer network in which some of the links between nodes are carried by open connections or virtual circuits in some larger network (e.g., the Internet) instead of by physical wires. The data link layer protocols of the virtual network are said to be tunneled through the larger network when this is the case. One common application is secure communications through the public Internet, but a VPN need not have explicit security features, such as authentication or content encryption. VPNs, for example, can be used to separate the traffic of different user communities over an underlying network with strong security features.VPN may have best-effort performance, or may have a defined service level agreement (SLA) between the VPN customer and the VPN service provider. Generally, a VPN has a topology more complex than point-to-point.

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What is Wide area networking?

A computer network that spans a long distance and uses specialized computers to connect smaller networks.


What uses multiple wifi access points to create a wide area network?

Mesh networks


WAN stands for?

If this is a computer related question; a WAN is a Wide Area Network. If you have 2 or more computers in your home or business and they are connected to each other you have a network. This is considered a local area network - LAN.If you have 2 of these groups of computers in separate locations they are each individual LANs. When you connect the separate LANs together either with dedicated phone lines (like T1) or through the internet using a 'private' (VPN is one type) connection they become a WAN.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------AnswerWANs or Wide Area Network are usually setup in different geographical Locations with the help of certain hardwares such as Router,Gateway and Bridge.It uses communication switching technique like Circuit,Message and Packet switching to exchange data.It used certain services to switch data ( exchange of data between nodes) likePSTN,PSDN,VAS,ISDN or Private Network.


When saving a file to your school network are you using a wan or lan how do you know?

When saving a file to your schools network, you are using a LAN, because it is a local are network. A WAN uses wide area networks, such as connecting two offices in two different locations.


What are the uses of a wide area network?

Networks are most often used to connect one or more computer systems to each other, whether to fulfill tasks that require more computers or to share data between the computers. A wide area network can connect more computers than normal networks.


When saving a file to your school's network are you using a WAN or LAN?

When saving a file to your schools network, you are using a LAN, because it is a local are network. A WAN uses wide area networks, such as connecting two offices in two different locations.


Can you play Defense of the Ancients Local Area Network without Internet?

No. I think that's pretty obvious. Local Area Network, if you use common sense, uses a network (therefore internet).


Definition of geographic scope?

Geographic scope is the coverage that computers have within a certain geographic area. It is also how far the computer along with its network can reach geographically. Local networks use dedicated data channels and consist of private branch exchanges and local area networks. Wide-area networks use telecommunication channels and also include value added networks


What is mean by wifi internet?

wireless local area network: a local area network that uses high frequency radio signals to transmit and receive data over distances of a few hundred feet; uses ethernet protocol


What is Human Area Network Technology?

Human Area Network Technology uses the surface of the human body as a data transmission path. It was developed by Robin Gaur Jind.


What is a Metropolitan Area Network?

MAN(metropolitan area network) are the networks spread over a city .The porpoise of a MAN is also a sharing of hardware and software resources among it's uses.


What els can you use the internet for besides using web browser?

The internet has a wide array of uses. One of them being the P2P or peer to peer network system. This network allows you to download files that other peers, or internet users, have for download. One software that uses this network is FrostWire.