JES2 provides two distinct facilities for the expansion of your JES2 processing configuration: remote job entry and network job entry. Remote job entry allows for the extension of your local processing configuration by defining remote locations that can consist of job input terminals and output devices at a different physical site connected to the z/OS®-JES2 processor through telecommunication links such as telephone lines and satellites. In this manner, a z/OS-JES2 system can provide input and output support across various geographic locations. But all the remote sites and their attached devices are defined to a single z/OS-JES2 configuration. Network job entry takes this concept further by allowing individual z/OS–JES2 processors, that are geographically dispersed, to be connected in a network of JES2 and non-JES2 systems that can communicate, pass jobs, and route output to any attached output devices.