Technology / Computers / Extranet: An extranet is similar to an intranet. They both use Internet protocols. The difference is that the extranet is designed to give a certain amount of access to outside users where an intranet is securely set behind a firewall and intended to be viewed by company employees or members of an organization only. An extranet can be controlled to provide various levels of accessibility to outside users and to what parts of the extranet they are authorized to view. See Also: Intranet
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