wide-area network

noun

1. a computer network that spans a relatively large geographical area.

wide area network

noun

1. WAN. computing a network of computers interconnected over large distances, often by optical fibres or microwave communications

wide area network

1. See WAN

Example Sentences

Offshore wind farms need to communicate with onshore systems via a wide area network.

From Science Daily

In contrast, the system the Gutruf Lab developed uses a low power wide area network, or LPWAN, that offers 2,400 times the distance of Wi-Fi and 533 times that of Bluetooth.

From Science Daily

Riverbed makes wide area network optimization equipment, which is losing value as cloud computing replaces its functionality.

From Forbes

Riverbed has been struggling with the integration of Opnet, a maker of software to manage traffic on networks, which it acquired in 2012 to counter a slowdown in its main wide area network optimization business.

From Reuters

The discipline is called "wide area network distributed computing".

From BBC