Many businesses instead of simply dealing with local or regional concerns, now have to think about global markets and logistics.  For the companies that have facilities spread out across the country or around the world, there is one thing that all of them need: A way to maintain fast, secure and reliable communications wherever their offices and employees are located.

Until fairly recently, this has meant the use of leased lines to maintain a wide area network (WAN). Leased lines, ranging from ISDN (integrated services digital network, 128 Kbps) to Optical Carrier-3 fiber, provided a company with a way to expand its private network beyond its immediate geographic area.  A WAN had obvious advantages over a public network like the Internet when it came to reliability, performance and security.  But maintaining a WAN, particularly when using leased lines, can become quite expensive and often costs rise as the distance between the offices increase.

As the popularity of the Internet grew, businesses turned to it as a means of extending their own networks.  First came intranets, which are password-protected sites designed for use only by company employees.  Now, many companies are creating their own VPN (virtual private network) to accommodate the needs of remote employees and distant offices.

The development of VPN technologies provides new opportunities to leverage the universal availability of the Internet for even the most security-critical streams of network communication.  Traffic, formerly moved over dedicated lines, now travels securely over the public infrastructure.  Moving extranet traffic to a VPN often results in significant cost savings, especially for businesses with widespread locations and highly mobile users.

VPN also offers greater flexibility in responding to immediate e-Business opportunities, and enables you to establish secure connectivity with remote or mobile locations where dedicated infrastructure would be cost-prohibitive or logistically impossible.  Our proven methodologies are based on extensive experience helping clients sort through the myriad of options, bringing together the best technologies for secure, dependable VPN connectivity.  We understand both the possibilities and the pitfalls of VPN deployment, and can help you determine which pieces of the puzzle fit best with your operation.  We will work with your Information Technology (IT) professionals and network users to help them get the maximum performance from these rapidly evolving technologies.