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Wide Area Networking (WAN) is a telecommunications network system spread across a broad geographic area. A WAN may be privately owned or rented, but usually includes public (shared user) networks, such as the telephone system. WANs can also be connected through leased lines and satellites. WANs are typically composed of powerful routers and switches that link business enterprises, universities, remote offices, and so on, around the world.
To handle the high volume of data on the Internet, some corporations use more than one Internet Service provider (ISP) to increase Internet reliability. Such enterprises with more than one ISP are referred called multihomed. In addition to reliability, a multihomed network architecture enables enterprises to distribute load among multiple connections.
WAN link load balancing can be used to steer requests initiated within the user's network and his/her responses over the appropriate link at a given time.
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