VPN Solutions
Consider the following scenario: You have your machines
hosted at our secure data center. Your sensitive data is
behind a firewall. All vistors to your web site use the
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. You have high speed
connectivity to the internet from your offices. You would
like to administer some highly sensitive files on your machines.
Even though all your data is secure at the data center,
you may be using unsecure means to manage your servers.
This is where Virtual Private Networks save the day. We
can provide you the hardware and software required to enable
you securely access your machines from anywhere in the world.
All communication is encrypted and immune from eavesdroppers.
It is as if you have your own Private Network. Hence the
name.
VPN provides less expensive, yet scalable, secured remote
offices & users Connectivity. This is a more cost effective
way of having your own private secured network using public
network like Internet compare to traditional Frame Relay
connectivity which uses the ATM switches and private lines.
With the advent of new Layer 2 technologies, such as Frame
Relay and ATM, the idea of a more cost effective Shared
Network solution took hold. These solutions were more cost
effective, and multiple different Layer 3 protocols, such
as IP, SNA and IPX, could be passed over such a network.
However, with the near universal acceptance of IP as the
Layer 3 protocol of choice, communicating over shared IP
networks, such as the Internet, has become yet another option.
The explosive growth of the Internet is a topic of which
nearly all members of our society have now become aware.
In just a few years, the Internet has grown from a network
used primarily by the military and academia, to a communications
medium that serves up mail, news, entertainment, audio,
video and other forms of information to millions of users
worldwide. In the process, it has interconnected businesses,
governments, and consumers, and many industry experts believe
that we have only just begun to realize the potential that
this new technology holds.
One of the more obvious uses for the Internet is as a
replacement to the private lines or Wide Area Networks that
many companies use today to connect remote offices together.
One problem with this, however, is the perception that communication
over a network with so many users is probably not particularly
secure. After all, the Internet is a public network to which
hundreds of millions of users already have access, so how
can communication across such a network be accomplished
without sacrificing privacy?
And this brings us to the concept of a Virtual Private
Network, or as it is commonly known, a VPN. The term VPN
is actually a very generic one, but it has come to represent
the idea of using a public network, such as the Internet,
to connect a group of users and remote offices together
in a private manner. Privacy is typically achieved through
a combination of three methods: authentication, encryption,
and access control. Please contact us for your VPN needs and infrastructure
architecture setup consultation.
