The split of powers and functions meant that the Greater London Council was responsible for "wide area" services such as fire, ambulance, flood prevention, and refuse disposal; with the local authorities responsible for "personal" services such as social care, libraries, cemeteries and refuse collection.

Performance improvements are sometimes delivered via wide area file services or WAN optimization.

The Greater London Council took responsibility for "wide area" services such as fire, ambulance, flood prevention, and refuse disposal, and the local authorities were given responsibility for "personal" services such as social care, libraries, cemeteries and refuse collection.

The upper tier of local government is Oxfordshire County Council, which administers "wide area" strategic services such as education, highways and social services.

In order to provide these wide area services, the authority should have boundaries that reflected geographical patterns of population and movement and provided a coherent area of administration.

The partners will co-operate on development of products that enable users to monitor remotely and manage in an integrated fashion, both their local and British Telecom-provided wide area network services.

They are also constrained as services cannot be migrated from local to wide area services too fast lest they exceed the total provisioning available and result in unacceptable quality.

The upper tier is Norfolk County Council, which provides "wide area" strategic services such as education, social services and libraries.

The NASA Integrated Services Network (NISN) is a global system of communications transmission, switching, and terminal facilities that provides NASA with wide area network communications services.