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Virtual Private Network VPN uses the public Internet to establish secure, low-cost network connection between remote offices, business partners and remote users. Continuous office connections are done by connecting firewalls with permanent VPN tunnel while remote users use a VPN client installed in their computers to establish a more temporary VPN tunnel to office resources.
Office Connectivity
Connecting Offices with StoneGate Multi-Link VPN
With globally spread business and strained IT budgets, organizations are often challenged to find cost-effective, yet reliable solutions to provide Internet connectivity. Traditionally, remote office connections (leased lines and MPLS) have been capacity-limited or expensive and rigid.
Virtual private networks (VPNs), however, provide a cost-effective and flexible alternative. StoneGate IPSec VPN, is the ideal solution for connecting offices spread around the globe requiring always-on connectivity. With possibility to utilize multiple parallel IPS connections simultaneously, StoneGate solution secures both the availability and integrity of office-to-office connections. It offers a safely encrypted, highly available, capacity flexible and cost-effective connectivity solution.
Multi-Link allows the use of several independent ISP connections within the same VPN tunnel, enabling truly reliable Internet connection at an affordable price. When building a network, a site can be connected with several low-cost DSL connections from different service providers. In practice this means that cost of connection comes down, as instead of one high-cost/high capacity link, the same amount of traffic can be delivered with several low-cost/low-capacity links. This also means redundant connectivity, since if one ISP link fails, traffic is automatically redirected to another operator's remaining links. The possibility of utilizing smart load-sharing functionality and VPN firewall's clustering capabilities ensures maintenance without downtime.