VPN

plural VPNs

1. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of virtual private network.

   Most Chinese users watch HBO through virtual private networks, or VPNs.

   2018 June 25, Lily Kuo, “China blocks HBO after John Oliver parody of Xi Jinping”, in The Guardian

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   The disadvantages to roll-your-own are that the company is responsible for managing VPN configurations, and because traffic is transversing the Internet, there are no performance guarantees. Moreover, it typically is difficult to support latency-sensitive traffic, such as voice. However, a roll-your-own approach lets corporations establish a VPN to any site that has access to the Internet.

   2002 April 8, Irwin Lazar, “Variations on a VPN theme”, in Network World, page 45

   To avoid detection, most torrenters will use a VPN to ensure that the torrenter's Internet address is hidden and the data stream is encrypted. The use of the VPN will help protect a torrenter from the ISP's knowledge of the unauthorized downloads, but it will not protect from malware being installed during the networking sessions.

   2022, Jon M. Garon, Parenting for the Digital Generation, page 175

   When operating on customer MAC (C-MAC) and service MAC (S-MAC) addresses, PBB uses a new backbone MAC (B-MAC) address. The B-MAC address is added at the edge of the PBB network, that is administered by a carrier VPN or a carrier-of-carriers VPN.

   2025 April 17, “Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB) and EVPN Integration Overview”, in Juniper Networks, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2025

2. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of virtual page number.

1. abbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of Vietnam People's Navy.

   Synonyms: HQNDVN