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Wide area network

WAN

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Digital/TEC definition

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Wide Area Network

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Tunstall Healthcare (UK) Ltd

Tunstall

A computer network in which the computers connected may be far apart, having a radius of more than 1km.

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Digital/TEC definition

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Wide Area Network

from

Digital Social Care (digitalsocialcare.org.uk)

Digital Social Care
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A network that exists over a large-scale area. The purpose is to connect different smaller networks, such as LAN and metro area networks.

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