WAN Solutions for Different Scenarios
Depending on your network environment, different WAN solutions should be vetted. In this chapter you learned about analog and digital leased lines for point-to-point connections. Then packet switched networks came about. This included frame relay and MPLS. Today, Metro Ethernet provides local LAN extensions at an affordable price. SONET fiber backbone and long-haul fiber networks can provide organizations with high-speed bandwidth. Depending on the environment, implementing the best WAN solution requires careful analysis from a cost versus performance perspective.
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Private IP addressing is used by enterprise, SMB, and small office/home office (SOHO) organizations. Typical uses of private IP addressing ...
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