Secure connections: you need to cheaply connect users around the globe while keeping the rest of the world out. A VPN may provide an astonishingly quick ROI compared to your current solution. (The Business Case for VPNs).

Enterprise Systems Journal, November, 2001 by Desai, Anil

From the mail clerk to the CEO, your users have come to expect constant, fast, reliable access to their corporate networks. That's true whether they're at their desks, in an airport or in a hotel room in Katmandu. And today's economics demand that you provide such access relatively cheaply.

Virtually anyone in IT management has wished data and users could be a bit closer at times, especially for those users who travel extensively, like salespeople and some executives. There's also the problem of that new branch office you're opening on the other side of the planet, half a world away from the central office and its data. Is a leased line truly the best way to connect? Enter VPNs--Virtual Private Networks. By design, they provide secure information transfer over...

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