IT Broadband Networks - Business Users

VPN Solutions

A Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows two or more private networks to connect with each other using a publicly accessed network. This is ideal for smaller companies with small inter-office bandwidth requirements, or where temporary setups make leased lines impractical to install. VPNs have the same security and encryption features as a private network, while taking the advantage of the economies of scale and remote accessibility of large public networks.

Our engineers can build a VPN solution designed especially for the needs of your company. ITBN Virtual Private Networks can be crafted with the right mix of accesss and security to ensure that only your own people can get in and all others are kept out.

A typical VPN might have a main LAN at the corporate headquarters of a company, other LANs at remote offices or facilities and individual users connecting from out in the field.

Advantages of VPN

VPNs offer a number of potential cost savings over more traditional leased lines and WAN setups.

Save on purchase of leased lines - using the Internet to distribute network services between offices means businesses no longer have to purchase leased lines to connect to every office or branch as a VPN connection needs only to use a relatively short dedicated connection.

Reduce telephone charges - VPNs can reduce long-distance telephone charges, as clients can gain access to the VPN by dialing into the nearest service provider's access point - usually for the cost of a local call.

Reduce support burden - VPNs have the potential to reduce a company's support burden. With a VPN, the service provider must support dial-up access, instead of the organization using it.

Save on operational costs - a company using a VPN can get rid of its modem pools, remote-access servers, and other WAN equipment and simply use its existing Internet installation.

VPN technologies are also considered remarkably secure.. Data that is sent over VPNs is confidential, requiring authorization to be received or replayed. Users can authenticate packets to establish the validity of the information, and the integrity of the data is usually guaranteed.

Contact our Corporate Sales representative to request more information about the VPN solution for your office.




	VPNs are not recommended for bandwidth-hungry network applications where router configuration or traffic shaping may provide better performance. If your company is accessing the Internet using a dial up facility, it may be time to examine the advantages of an leased line.

	If you want to learn more about VPNs, you can download these White Papers: VPN - A Business Case A Practical Guide to the Right VPN Solution Or check out one of the following links: Internet Week VPN Labs Webopedia on VPN