Holly Metlitsky and Ethan Banks dissect WAN evolution, covering legacy infrastructure, private versus public WANs, and the shift to cloud-era networking.
Takeaways
•Ethan Banks details WAN development, from early dial-up and copper lines to modern fiber optic networks, highlighting roles of telcos, governments, and cloud providers like Google.
•Holly and Ethan clarify WAN versus LAN boundaries, discuss why organizations sometimes maintain private WANs for compliance and governance, and how internet connectivity has changed this landscape.
•Technological standards have evolved from T1 lines and ISDN to Ethernet and MPLS, with much WAN traffic now tunneled. Modern enterprise WANs are increasingly managed through cloud providers, with MPLS remaining for specific cases.
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