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The VAN services senders by delivering ASC X12
transactions to the designated receivers.
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Senders communicate with the VAN at their convenience
and the VAN delivers the sender's transactions to Electronic Mailboxes.
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Each mailbox belongs to a specific recipient of
transaction data and transactions from multiple senders are collected in the
same mailbox.
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At his convenience, the receiver of EDI data from a VAN
establishes a communication session and requests delivery of all transactions
stored in
his mailbox. Since the sender and receiver's communication sessions are
independent of one another, the VAN acts as a buffer of security.
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As the sender and receiver are never directly connected,
a VAN user is not required to support various data communication protocols and
speeds based on the abilities of individual trading partners.
