Computer Science GCSE
WAN
What WAN means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: OCR
A network that covers a large geographical area, often connecting LANs across towns, countries or continents, with communication infrastructure usually owned by third parties such as telecom companies.
Covers a large geographical area and typically links separate LANs using infrastructure that the organisation does not own, such as leased telecoms lines.
Topics that use WAN
- Networks and topologies (OCR GCSE)
- Networks (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Bandwidth
- LAN
- Mesh topology
- Star topology
- Addressing at different layers
- Bus topology
- Central management and access
- Cloud computing
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