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  CNET GLOSSARY: Terms for the techie
WAN
wide-area network Take two local-area networks (LANs), hook them together, and you have a WAN. Wide-area networks can be made up of interconnected smaller networks spread throughout a building, a state, or the entire globe. The Internet could be considered a WAN. A wireless WAN is called a WLAN. 
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