Two identical ports, two different purposes.

In the alphabet soup of technology acronyms, WAN and LAN are often grouped together due to their similar functionality.

What is a WAN (wide area network)? A wide area network (WAN) is a geographically distributed private telecommunications network that interconnects multiple local area networks (LANs). A LAN is a group ...

Network managers concerned with the user experience face their biggest challenges over the wide area. LAN-like performance is the goal for users at home or branch offices, but many network managers ...

Virtualization is a backbone of network design, management and security in the modern enterprise. Surprisingly, in most enterprises, virtualization came to the WAN last, but it arrived with enormous ...

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 ...

At first glance, the scalability of the WAN seems to be pretty simple – a T-3 circuit has a lot more capacity than a T-1 circuit, and an OC-3 circuit has yet more capacity. So what’s the issue? The ...

While it has been a mainstay in the private sector for many years, software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) technology is still slowly finding its way into the federal government. However, the ...

The largest automotive retailer in the U.S. had a problem. The IT network it was operating for its roughly 350 locations across 18 states was outdated and inflexible. “We had routers at every store,” ...