"VPN" meaning in All languages combined

See VPN on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

Head templates: {{en-prop}} VPN
  1. (military, nautical) Initialism of Vietnam People's Navy. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Vietnam People's Navy Synonyms: HQNDVN Coordinate_terms: HQVNCH, RVNN
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Noun [English]

Forms: VPNs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} VPN (plural VPNs)
  1. (computing) Initialism of virtual private network. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: virtual private network Translations (virtual private network): VPN (english: excluding Canada) [masculine] (French), RPV [Canada, masculine] (French), vépéenne [masculine] (French), VPN [feminine, neuter] (German), ブイピーエヌ (bui-pī-enu) (Japanese), VPN (VPN) (Japanese), 브이피엔 (beu'ipien) (Korean), ویپیان (vi-pi-en) (Persian), فیلترشکن (filteršekan) (Persian), VPN [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), ВПН (VPN) (Russian), ви-пи-эн (vi-pi-en) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-VPN-en-noun-UzX4siCE Categories (other): Computing, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 41 40 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 41 23 35 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 36 28 37 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'virtual private network': 96 4
  2. (computing) Initialism of virtual page number. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: virtual page number
    Sense id: en-VPN-en-noun-8W1PDK8a Categories (other): Computing, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 41 40 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 41 23 35 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 36 28 37 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: PPTP, L2TP

Noun [Japanese]

IPA: [bɯ̟ipʲiːe̞nɯ̟] Forms: VPN [canonical] (ruby: VPN(ブイピーエヌ)), bui-pī-enu [romanization]
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from English VPN. Etymology templates: {{ubor|ja|en|VPN}} Unadapted borrowing from English VPN Head templates: {{ja-noun|ブイ-ピー-エヌ}} VPN(ブイピーエヌ) • (bui-pī-enu)
  1. (computing) virtual private network

Noun [Portuguese]

IPA: /ˌveˌpeˈẽ.ni/ [Brazil], /ˌveˌpeˈẽ.ni/ [Brazil], /ˌveˌpeˈe.ne/ [Southern-Brazil], /ˌveˌpeˈɛ.nɨ/ [Portugal], /ˌveˌpeˈɛ.nɨ/ [Portugal], /ˌbeˌpeˈɛ.nɨ/ [Northern, Portugal] Forms: VPNs [plural]
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from English VPN. Etymology templates: {{ubor|pt|en|VPN}} Unadapted borrowing from English VPN Head templates: {{pt-noun|m,f|#s}} VPN m or f (plural VPNs)
  1. (computing) VPN (“virtual private network”) Tags: feminine, masculine

Inflected forms

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