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Internetworking

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Last Updated May 24, 2021 7:46 am
(n.) The art and science of connecting individual local-area networks (LANs) to create wide-area networks (WANs) , and connecting WANs to form even larger WANs. Internetworking can be extremely complex because it generally involves connecting networks that use different protocols. Internetworking is accomplished with routers, bridges, and gateways.

Other forms: internetwork (v.)