Transparent LAN
A transparent LAN is high-speed, LAN interconnection service that hides the complexity associated with WAN technology, design and management.
With a transparent LAN, a service provider interconnects your corporation's LANs in such a way that they appear to be interconnected by a LAN segment (This is what a good service does; not necessarily all services make TLSs this "transparent").
Employees who are geographically separated can then communicate with one another and access remote servers as easily as if all the employees and servers were located in the same building.
A transparent LAN can be based on any technology (such as frame relay, ATM or private lines). It is an application-based service as it is meant to specifically address the needs of customers who want to transmit LAN traffic across the WAN.
From Transparent LAN service as an alternative to frame relay, Network World on Frame Relay, 04/13/00.
Additional resources
Ethernet: It isn't just for LANs anymoreLooks at the role of Ethernet in transparent-LAN services. Network World, 06/23/03.
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