"Hybrid Networks" A hybrid network is any computer
network that uses more than one type of connecting
technology or topology. That previosly meant the
possibility of different communication methods. The
term has now evolved to mean the combining of a Hosted Network
with a Customer Premise Network in order to share full
networking services both in the cloud and in the local
offices. This, in the
most generic sense, provides services that are provided over
the Internet bi-directionally and are delivered both in the
cloud and locally to a remote site. This is the same as
what was previously known as Wide Area Networking with the
small change that instead of a corporate office being the
head end of the system the cloud is tasked with that
purpose.
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!