VPN Example
To help understand how an IP VPN can help reduce costs, increase security and reduce demands on managing your network infrastructure, let's have a look at an example.
A business has three offices:
- A head office in Sydney, with 20 staff with an e-mail server in Sydney along with order management systems.
- A small office in Melbourne with 3 staff.
- A teleworker in Brisbane, working from home.
The business has a number of options in how to connect the sites together.
- They could run a leased line service such as Frame Relay or ISDN from Sydney to Melbourne. This is extremely costly and is limited to relatively slow speeds. This doesn't solve the problem with the teleworker in Brisbane.
- They could order ADSL in each site, buy costly VPN Access devices to place at each site. However, Arthur will be restricted by the ADSL plans he chooses as to how much data he can transfer each month without incurring additional charges.
- They could order an AlwaysONLINE IP VPN at all three sites at a lower per month cost.
AlwaysONLINE VPN
The new business network may look similar to this:
Now the business can add additional sites, whether they're new offices as the business expands, or workers on ADSL at home. There's no need to reconfigure any equipment at the sites. Adding a site to the network is a seamless process, managed by AlwaysONLINE, with no impact to the operation of your network.
Staff travelling for business can dial up into the network from anywhere in Australia for a local call. Staff at the Melbourne office can use the web server in Sydney without having to worry about confidential web pages being exposed to the Internet.
Learn more about VPN business advantages.