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What is a VPN?

A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a network tunnel created for data transmission between two or more authenticated parties. A secure VPN encrypts data before passing it through the network tunnel. This ensures user privacy, data integrity and data authenticity. At its foundation, a secure VPN solution is complete only if the design architecture integrates:

• Firewall
• Encryption
• Authentication
• Remote Access
• Tunneling
• QoS (Quality of Service) Bandwidth Shaping
• Automated Digital Certificate Management
• Management, monitoring, alerting, reporting and help desk

In this digital economy, proprietary information is your company's most valuable asset.  The growth of the Internet has greatly influenced the ease and speed with which information is shared, increasing its value exponentially. Yesterday's challenge was to keep information secure. Today's challenge is to make this information accessible.  Let's face it, what good is secured information if your users can't get to it? A VPN solution provides you with state-of-the-art security and user accessibility. The vital combination for today's business model.

By combining the most advanced tunneling, encryption and firewall technologies with intuitive management and authentication tools, a VPN provides an incomparable solution: impeccable security, user transparency, and data accessibility. Leverage VPN technology to secure your environment. Extranet. Internet. Intranet or private networks. A complete VPN solution safeguards your information and at the same time provides the flexibility needed to keep your team productive, no matter where they are.
 

Security Saves you Money

Private networks used to be the only way to obtain broad scale communications. But private networks are expensive, not easily scaled and lack security. The Internet offers an inexpensive alternative for digital communication. A VPN solution allows you to take full advantage of the cost-saving benefits of the Internet and provides you with a superior level of security.
 

Smooth and Seamless Integration

Whether building on an existing network, or starting from scratch, a VPN solution will integrate seamlessly into your network infrastructure. We don't ask you to change your network components or software, now, or in the future.
 

Easy to Maintain

Time is money. A complete VPN solution includes features that eliminate day-to-day maintenance:

• Automated Key Management
• Auditing and Logging
• SNMP
• Centralized Management

One of the primary purposes of a virtual private network (VPN) is to provide users with transparent and secure access to their corporate network. No matter where they are. A VPN facilitates secure communications in a variety of environments.  Network-to-network. Desktop-to-desktop. Client-to-server. Dial-up for home office or traveling users.
 

Security and Speed - in One Solution

All secure VPN solutions include encryption, which is a computationally intensive function. A VPN includes both hardware and software encryption components, designed to maximize your network's throughput performance.  This allows you to take advantage of todays low cost high speed Internet access options.

Plan for the Long-term - Protect your Investment

A complete VPN solution is designed with a fully scalable, modular architecture. It supports the latest industry standard, including IPSec. Adding components, or adding users, a VPN will grow with your business.

Quality of Service (QoS)

Extend & Secure your
        Communication Environment
 

Create an Extranet

In today's economy, most organizations rely on strategic partnerships to ensure mutual growth and success. What makes these relationships successful? Information flow. A VPN establishes secure communication channels between you and your partners, enabling you to confidently share information in a secure environment. To the user, the secured extranet environment is transparent. The flexibility of a VPN allows you to establish a stringent foundation for securing proprietary information.
 

Expand to the Internet

Many organizations have been hesitant to leverage the Internet because of concerns about the safety of their proprietary information. How can you protect this information from external threats? A VPN includes a circuit-level firewall that protects your internal network by tracking and controlling the state of all in-bound and out-bound connections. Detailed auditing and logging capabilities assist you in implementing your security policy.
 

Maximize your Intranet

More and more organizations are changing their communications infrastructure to leverage the flexibility and cost savings of the Internet. But how do you establish a transparent environment that allows multi-office organizations to securely communicate? The solution provides a comprehensive virtual private network solution that allows you to create secure encrypted tunnels between your offices. With a VPN you can selectively encrypt information based upon its source and destination, IP address, and application port and protocol.
 

Leverage Remote Access

The home-office and traveling user scenario has become a mainstay in the evolving structure of today's organization. How can you ensure that these users have secure access to networked resources? A VPN solution allows your home-office and traveling users to dial-in to any ISP and create a secure tunnel to your network. Users can retrieve e-mail and access all network files. The VPN provides users with a secure, transparent, and productive work environment. In addition, your company will save money by avoiding the significant cost, and headaches, associated with the implementation and maintenance of a modem pool.
 

Completely Secure your Private Network

In most cases, private networks are not as secure as they first seem to be. Their unprotected communications are susceptible to snooping, eavesdropping and data Theft. Intercepting non-encrypted information on a private network is as simple as eavesdropping on a telephone conversation. Regardless of whether you have a private network or an Internet-based network, a VPN solution is vital and effective.

Services & Support

Continuous Administration & Response

Once your VPN is implemented it becomes like the rest of your network. It must be available at all times!  Users, especially remote and mobile, have even greater requirements.  They are accessing your network resources at all different hours.  It is important that the solution provided can be monitored and managed 24 hours a day, 7days a week.  Keeping track of VPN utilization will help you implement changes as they are required, before the complaints begin.  Help desk services ensure questions or issues are resolved quickly and professionally.

Most organizations do not, nor can afford to, have all the trained personnel on staff to perform the required Service & Support functions.  That is why Solucom provides these services in a cost-effective manner.  In many cases, Solucom does the complete IT outsourcing for organizations.  We work with you to customize a solution that best fits your organizations requirements.