Mission 028

Engineer Briefing

A network engineer has successfully built a local network.

Example:

Office Network

PCs

 |

Switches

 |

Router

Inside this building, communication works.

But organizations rarely operate from one location.

A company may have:

• Headquarters.
• Branch offices.
• Data centers.
• Remote workers.
• Cloud environments.

The challenge becomes:

"How do we connect networks that are far apart?"

The answer is:

WAN — Wide Area Network

Mission Objectives