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WAN

Term · Cybersecurity · MLC-T-CYB-004599

A physical or logical network that provides data communications to a larger number of independent users than are typically served by a local area network (LAN) and that is usually spread over a larger geographic area than that of a LAN.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CYB-004599
FieldCybersecurity
Expansionswide area network
ReferencesNIST SP 800-82r3; NIST CSRC Glossary
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-004599",
  "term": "WAN",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "A physical or logical network that provides data communications to a larger number of independent users than are typically served by a local area network (LAN) and that is usually spread over a larger geographic area than that of a LAN.",
  "expansions": [
    "wide area network"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NIST SP 800-82r3",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/wan/"
}

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