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Book IV: Routing > Chapter 5: Configuring Serial Connections and WAN Links
Chapter 5: Configuring Serial Connections and WAN Links
In This Chapter
Working with the telephone company’s connection options
Examining WAN technologies and connection options
Setting up a basic serial connection to support a WAN connection
In Book IV, Chapter 1, I state that the key reason for using WANs is that you are using a network infrastructure you do not own. This chapter focuses on setting up Wide Area Network (WAN) links for your network. Many people use serial links to implement their WAN and Internet connections, but a moving trend is to implement fiber, Ethernet, or other connections directly at their routers. After discussing the types of links you can implement for WAN connections, I show you how to configure the serial connection.
