Question by ferdhghuokfresw: Difference between Enterprise network and WAN?
If anyone can help that would be great, or any websites that explain it. Thanks for your help
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Answer by deepa
Hi,
Enterprise Network is reffered to as having many copany sites connected together to make them read as one.
Most of the time this is done by site to site VPN. or companies will use some routing protocols to accomplish this.
Example will be having diffrent job sites connecting to the corporate network and making it look like they are at the coprorate network.
You don’t have to be in diffrent sites, it can be diffrent buildings or just the corprate network will be called enterperise network. Anything that is on the LAN or Local area network can be consider an enterprise network.
now on WAN. its stand for Wide Area Network. mostly used to connect to you the internet or to other networks.
If you ever seen a ethernet router, you will notice in the back that its has LAN port, WAN ports and some has HA or DMZ ports..
The WAN usually connects to your ISP “INternet Servcie Provider”
they will provide you with the settings for that side. and the LAN side is configured by you or your network admin.
now WAN itself can be called enterprise network. but that network will be your ISP enterprise network.
WAN and LAS has diffrent routing protocols. OSPF, RIP, and other on the LAN and MPLS, BGP and others on the WAN. this is used to communicate within diffrent networks.
I hope this helps.
What do you think? Answer below!
A CAN is a campus area network and restricted to a university grounds, or a companies grounds. Within the CAN you may have many LAN or local area networks connected, or it may be a single LAN.
A MAN is a metropolitain area network, and usually is considered to be within a city’s limits.
A WAN is a wide area network and covers a large geographical area. The Internet is a public WAN.
An Enterprise is a network that is controlled by a company or a group. An Enterprise usually will not connect other networks together, but an Enterprise will connect to a network (WAN) that allows connection to other networks.
A WAN port on a home router can be connected to a LAN port on a switch and become part of that LAN.
The use of the term LAN tends to be a bit fuzzy when people are talking and sometimes CAN, LAN, MAN, FAN (family area network) and to a lesser extent WAN should have been used.