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extranet
Wiktionary
n. (context computing English) A private computer network that uses Internet protocols and can be accessed by authorized individuals via the Internet.
Wikipedia
An extranet is a website that allows controlled access to partners, vendors and suppliers or an authorized set of customers – normally to a subset of the information accessible from an organization's intranet. An extranet is similar to a DMZ in that it provides access to needed services for authorised parties, without granting access to an organization's entire network.An extranet is a private network organization.
Historically the term was occasionally also used in the sense of two organisations sharing their internal networks over a VPN.
Usage examples of "extranet".
Thus, rather than an Internet, it would be an extranet, a private system connecting all of the supersecret internal networks and databases of the spy community, with a thick firewall separating it from the crowded and open Internet.
Thus, rather than an Internet, it would be an extranet, a private system connecting all of the supersecret internal networks and databases of the spy community, with a thick firewall separating it from the crowded and open Internet.