"CPN - Customer Premise Network" A CPN
(Customer-premises-network) is equipment and infrastructure
which is located on the customer site. CPE (Customer
Premise Equipment) is the equipment which is located and
functions within the CPN. CPE is also often mis-used
by vendors which utilize it as a reference to Customer
Provided Equipment. Customer-provided equipment (CPE),
by their definition,
is any products, technology and associated equipment which
is located
at a customers premises, is part of an existing working
solution and is not slated to be replaced in the course of a
project or sale.
Another mis-use of vendors was the generalization that CPN
networks could also be called Local Area Networks (LAN).
Local Area Networks is a topology designation and not an
equipment classification.
We use a proprietary industry software that requires that we have our servers local in our office. We never understood before how important it is for our technology providers to be aware of having both cloud and local networks and how to bridge them!