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Wide Area Ethernet (WAE) 広域イーサネット is the delivery of high-speed wide area network (WAN) service using Ethernet connectivity. Essentially, WAE is really a virtual private network (VPN) service that simplifies linking remote locations. WAE is marketed instead of traditional wide area connections such as leased line, frame relay or T1 services.

Wide Area Ethernet maintains the high bandwidth and simplicity of Layer 2 Ethernet. The flat network design makes the connected sites appear like a single logical network and simplifies connectivity back to the headquarters and between remote sites.

(VPLS) delivers Layer 2 connectivity to all endpoints in a WAE configuration. VPLS enables the carriers to create the various WAN connections (over either IP or MPLS networks) together like a single logical Ethernet network for that customer and allows administrators to define Service quality (QoS) levels for the wide area connection, to ensure that audio or video applications obtain required bandwidth.