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   From: usenet@andyburns.uk   
      
   Paul wrote:   
      
   > Andy Burns wrote:   
   > >> Daniel70 wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I would have thought LAN was with-in a House, WAN was with-in a   
   (commercial) Building   
   >>   
   >> Within businesses, WAN usually refers to all their buildings (either   
   worldwide, or within a country).   
   >   
   > That's intranet.   
      
   I understand why you suggest that, but really over here the term used in   
   practice is "WAN" and increasingly "SD-WAN" where all the satellite   
   sites detect each other and automatically form hub/spoke or full-mesh   
   VPNs between themselves   
      
   In common usage, "The intranet" more often refers to an internal   
   IIS/sharepoint site, that a few years ago would have only been reachable   
   from the LAN/WAN, but now with cloud usage, is probably reachable from   
   anywhere subject to multifactor authentication or geofencing ...   
      
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intranet   
   >   
   > We had one at work.   
      
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