extranetn.
/ˈɛkstrənɛt/, U.S. /ˈɛkstrəˌnɛt/ Telecommunications and Computing.
An intranet that can be accessed, via the internet, by a limited group of authorized external users; a network comprising two or more intranets belonging to different organizations, linked via the internet.Quot. 19951 represents an isolated use alluding to the exclusion of most of the world from the internet (whether by use of the prefix ex- (in external) or extra-), but without intending the sense defined above.
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1995 Rapid (Commission of the European Communities) (Nexis) 3 Oct. 95 It is not acceptable that the Internet could become an ‘Extranet’ for 5 billion people..a worldwide web outside the reach of most of mankind.]
1995 Re: Notes vs the Web - What so you Think in comp.groupware.lotus-notes.misc (Usenet newsgroup) 10 Nov. The new rule is that for a platform to survive, it has to seamlessly blend and support extranet, internet, intranet and desktop. And right now, it's the extranet aspects that are most critical in the marketplace.
1996 Internet Week (Nexis) 6 Jan. As corporate intranets and extranets continue to dominate the growth of the Internet, analysts say they expect security services to be standard offerings in the ISP market.
1998 NewMedia Oct. 35/1 PQMS..manages a private extranet for cardiac perfusionists.
2002 Computer Weekly 44/6 Viewed in this way, the Simple Object Access Protocol (Soap) is simply the platform-neutral exchange medium that is obviously indispensable if extranets are to function as bridges between companies with disparate IT approaches.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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