Chapter 11. Wide Area ConnectivitySAP Services Beyond the Property Borders

In a globalized economy, even mid-market enterprises are facing the situation in which remote facilities, subsidiaries, and sales offices distributed over the whole globe have to be connected to centralized SAP systems. Even small companies are seldom in a situation where all their users are situated at one campus. In many cases, the majority of the SAP user population is connected to remote local area networks rather than those located at the same site as the data center at the company headquarter campus. Therefore, local area networks (LAN) have to be interconnected to wide area networks (WAN) to provide SAP connectivity throughout the company. When SAP services are ...

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