VPN

English

Noun

VPN (plural VPNs)

1. (computing) Initialism of virtual private network.
   • 2002 April 8, Irwin Lazar, “Variations on a VPN theme”, in Network World, page 45:

     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.

   • 2018 June 25, Lily Kuo, The Guardian‎^[1]:

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

2. (computing) Initialism of virtual page number.

Translations

virtual private network

• French: VPN (fr) m (excluding Canada), RPV (fr) m (Canada), vépéenne (fr) m
• German: VPN (de) n or f
• Japanese: ブイピーエヌ (bui-pī-enu)
• Persian: وی‌پی‌ان (vi-pi-en), فیلترشکن (filteršekan)
• Portuguese: VPN f

See also

• PPTP
• L2TP

Anagrams

• NPV, NVP, PNV, PVN

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English VPN.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bɯ̟ipʲiːe̞nɯ̟]

Noun

VPN(ブイピーエヌ) • (bui-pī-enu) 

1. (computing) virtual private network

References

• “VPN”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎^[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
• “VPN” in Weblio Dictionary.