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A third party entity that provides a service for electronically exchanging information between trading partners. Services provided by the VANs include electronic mailboxes for EDI transmissions and EDI record keeping for audit tracking.
A private network through which value-added carriers provide special data transmission services.
Valued Added Network. Typically a packet switched network with the added access to data bases and other services.
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Value Added Network. A communication network that provides features beyond basic transmission of information. For example, a data network that provides protocol translation or a voice network with enhanced call routing or distribution features.
Value Added Network. These are usually third party service organisations.
Value Added Network. Public data network that "adds value" by transmitting data and providing access to commercial databases and software. Most new EDI users implement their EDI through commercial vans that provide EDI services.
Value-Added Network network (access) service that apart from data transmission also offers some additional value such as protocol conversion, store-and forward messaging, gateways etc.
A value-added network (VAN) is a private network provider that is hired by a company to facilitate electronic data interchange (EDI) or provide other network services.
Value Added Network. A public data communications network offering EDI-specific services such as standards-compliance checking.
Value Added Network. Formerly, this only indicated a vendor who would supply a turnkey network solution for organizations needing point-to-point communications for applications such as e-mail, EDI, and other business applications requiring interaction between sites. The VAN would supply the physical "wire", software, service, security, and reliability. Today, VAN can refer to someone who is offering the same suite of products and services, but over the Internet.
Value Added Network. A clearing house for electronic transfers between partners.
A virtual area network (VAN) is a network on which users are enabled to share a more visual sense of community through high bandwidth connections.
Value Added Network - a company who acts as an electronic mailbox between vendors and customers for the purpose of conducting business using electronic documents.
Value-Added Network: a packet switched network offering special services e.g. protocol conversion, data store and forward.
Value Added Network, Abbreviated VAN. Commercially available turn-key data networks from companies such as CompuServe, GE Information Services, and Infonet Services Corporation. Vans are available on a leased-line or a dial-up rate and save an organization the trouble of setting up the equipment and contracting for the lines and service. VANs can also provide additional services such as message routing, resource management, and protocol-conversion services
(Value Added Network): a communications network that offers services beyond data transmission, such as EDI message translation, error detection, protocol conversion and message storage. GXS and Sterling are companies that provide VAN services.
value added network. A company that acts as a clearinghouse for electronic transactions between trading partners.
Value added network – VAN services provide shared, private messaging networks for supporting EDI applications. Videoconferencing – one method of teleconferencing, the other being audioconferencing. Videoconferencing is routine in Star Trek and organisations with large communications budgets that can afford TV quality systems. Its popular base is growing only slowly, due to expense and the jerky quality of pictures over the average ISDN line. Desktop videoconferencing is growing, and there are potentially huge savings to be made by using desktop conferencing instead of travelling to meetings. Increased bandwidth, compression technology, and declining cost of digital cameras will contribute to increases in uptake.
Value Added Network. A privately owned packet switched network whose services are sold to the public.
Value Added Network. A national (or international) enhanced network that is designed expressly to carry data communications. VANs provide special services to their customers, such as access to databases.
A Value-Added Network (VAN) is a third-party service that acts as an electronic postal system for EDI transactions. VANs are equipped to accept a variety of telecommunications protocols, enabling connectivity between organizations with different telecommunications protocols.
Value Added Network. is a privately owned, or proprietary, network. VAN's generally provide specialised services, such as electronic data interchange services or access to a particular database. By definition, a VAN adds something of value to the transmission. There is norma
Acronymn for 'Value Added Network': A secure and privately owned network offering services such as mailboxing, reliable data transmission, carbon copy services, many access methods and other value-added capabilities.
(Value Added Network) - A network whose services go beyond simple switching.
Value Added Network. A computer network with specific user facilities. Examples are: Internet providers for email, EDI for business trading, etc.
Value-Added Network. A VAN company is an organization that helps companies exchange private documents, usual via EDI systems.
Value-Added Network; a packet switched network that offers special services, such as protocol conversion and data store and forward.
Standard abbreviation for Value-added Network
Companies using EDI (electronic data interchange) usually exchange transactions through a third party VAN (value added network).
Value Added Network: generally a packet switched network with access to data bases, protocol conversion, etc.
Value Added Network. A third party network providing additional services beyond simple data transmission, such as data translation, electronic mailboxes etc.
Value Added Network. In a typical EDI scenario, suppliers and retailers exchange purchase orders and invoices electronically from computer to computer. Usually, this transfer is mediated through a value added network service provider (VAN). Companies engaging in sending and receiving EDI documents use these VAN's as an electronic post office. The buyer sends their EDI Purchase Orders to a VAN, who proceeds to rout the orders to the appropriate suppliers electronic mailbox. The supplier connects to the VAN and to their mailbox, and receive the orders from their buyers. The same scenario is followed when the supplier sends an EDI Invoice to the retailer. VAN's also provide verification and confirmation of the transaction insuring security and quality control of the data processed.
A Value Added Network is a network that receives, stores and routes electronic messages.
Value Added Network. A privately ownednetwork that provides a services for a fees. A Value Added Network usually offers some service or information that is not readily available on public networks. Today's VANs offer a lengthy list of services.
Value Added Network (VAN) is an independently contracted company, which acts as a post office for sending and receiving electronic transactions to and from trading partners.
Value Added Network. Proprietary third party networks that provide for two systems, unable to communicate directly, to talk to one another. In making the conversion between systems they add value. In addition, VANs are also capable of holding data in electronic storage until it is required by a business.
Value Added Network. A third party network that transmits data between trading partners.
Value Added Network. Communications network that provides features such as message switching and protocol handling.
a specialized common carrier that "adds value" over and above the standard services of common carriers.
( Value Added Network) rivately maintained networks dedicated to EDI between business partners.
Value-Added Network. A system where a network leases communication lines from a communications common carrier, enhances them by adding improvements such as error detection and/or faster response time, and then allows others to use this service on those lines for a fee.
Value Added Network - a third party supplier that receives EDI transmissions from trading partners and holds them in a mailbox until retrieved by the receiving trading partners.
Acronym for value-added network.