I am studying for my CCNA and my current topic is related to WANs, and I need some clarity on certain things.
Here is a topology I've quickly built. (Don't mind the IP addressing, I've have purposely skipped that.
Imagine that these two networks are two different sites that are miles apart
My questions related to this are
- Since those two routers connect two sites that are far apart, geographically distinct for example, does this mean that the connection between those routers is a WAN, then?
- The connection between such routers isn't just a single cable connecting both sites, right? Each router has a WAN cable provided by the ISP that connects to the ISP and the ISP does the job of connecting those two sites? Like this?
- Could those two sites communicate now, even without the use of the internet? If there is a WAN connection between them.