Extranet creates competitive advantages for companies An extranet is a private network that uses the Internet protocol and the public telecommunication system to securely share part of a business's information or operations with suppliers, vendors, partners, customers, or other businesses. When we talk about extranet, we cannot forget mentioning Internet and intranet. They have very close relationship. First there was the Internet, which is available for everyone to use. Then Intranet uses the same friendly …showed first 75 words of 1838 total…

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