Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation virtual private network
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- initialism
Virtual Private Network
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Examples
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What happens is that, when I click the vpn to connect, it appears to establish a connection but when I go on a web page it times out along with any other page I refresh: as if I wasn't even connected to the internet (despite the VPN icon still showing as connected).
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Before the term VPN came into general use, other terminology was used.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] Howard C. Berkowitz 2010
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Before the term VPN came into general use, other terminology was used.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] Howard C. Berkowitz 2010
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I would call it VPN traffic, no matter what you are doing.
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An Internet VPN is one approach (and one that's increasingly common).
The new WAN architecture: a blueprint Johna Till Johnson 2010
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An honorable mention goes out to the Mac OS X built-in VPN client.
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In Windows versions prior to Windows Vista, the built-in VPN client received a fair amount of criticism for lacking features and supported protocols.
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VPN is not that easy to configure but when it works it works well.
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Therefore, in VPN CVC Pro, you must set the following items to match the ones you set for the device on the Sites tab:
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CVC will be overwritten with the CVC you subsequently add in VPN CVC Pro.
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