{"id":18189,"date":"2024-03-07T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/what-is-a-wan"},"modified":"2024-03-07T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T13:15:00","slug":"what-is-a-wan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=18189","title":{"rendered":"What is a WAN?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\">\n <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/what-is-a-wan\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/hubfs\/2024\/Blog%20Assets\/AdobeStock_144945813-1.jpeg\" alt=\"What is a WAN?\" class=\"hs-featured-image\" style=\"width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\"> <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Welcome back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.telegeography.com\/telegeography-explains-the-internet-podcast\"><em>TeleGeography Explains the Internet<\/em><\/a>. We&#8217;ve reached the finale of our five-part series that makes good on our name, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">literally<\/span> explaining the ins and outs of the interwebs.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past five weeks, we&#8217;ve endeavored to explain precisely how data moves around the world, covering the basics of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/what-is-the-internet\">internet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/what-is-a-transport-network\">transport networks<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/what-are-data-centers\">data centers<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/what-is-the-cloud\">cloud<\/a> along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Today we answer the lingering question: What is a WAN?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/track.hubspot.com\/__ptq.gif?a=594292&amp;k=14&amp;r=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.telegeography.com%2Fwhat-is-a-wan&amp;bu=https%253A%252F%252Fblog.telegeography.com&amp;bvt=rss\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" style=\"min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important; \"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to TeleGeography Explains the Internet. We&#8217;ve reached the finale of our five-part series that makes good on our name, literally explaining the ins and outs of the interwebs.<br \/>\nOver the past five weeks, we&#8217;ve endeavored to explain p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5477,480],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","category-podcast"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18190,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18189\/revisions\/18190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}