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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I often wonder – why aren’t all the extensions of the WAN documented in the diagrams as well? When a remote worker with a laptop connects to your corporate network via VPN, isn’t that truly an ...