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VLAN Virtual LAN. A group of location- and topology-independent devices

that communicate as if they are on the same physical LAN.

WAN Wide Area Network. A communications network that covers a wide area. A WAN can cover a large geographic area, and may contain several LANs within it.

URL Uniform Resource Locator. The address that defines the route to a file on the web or other Internet facility.

UTC Coordinated Universal Time. This is the standard time common to every place in the world. Formerly and still widely called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and also World Time, UTC nominally reflects the mean solar time along the Earth's prime meridian.

WAN port On the Webcache, the WAN port is an auto-negotiating 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX RJ-45 port which is used to connect the Webcache to the network in an inline deployment environment.

WPAD Web Proxy Auto-Discovery. This protocol enables the Web browser on client machines to automatically find and load proxy configuration information from a server without user intervention.

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