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The
benefits of a local area network, or
LAN, based at one site within a company
are universally recognised. However, you
may have reached a point where you have
more than one site, perhaps each with
its own network and you now wish them
to communicate with each other. A wide
area network, or WAN, is the solution.
A wide area network extends your
existing network using external
communications technologies such as
ISDN, ADSL, leased line or even over
a standard internet connection using
virtual private networking (VPN). There
are many options and not all of them
will be right for your company.
USIC can help you make the right
choices. Our consultants can provide an
independent and professional assessment
of your WAN needs. They will present
their findings and recommend a solution
that is right for you, based on your
technological needs and supplier costs,
ensuring you get the right solution at
the right price.
Virtual Private Networking, or VPN, is
becoming ever more popular as a WAN
solution. The only connection needed at
each site to establish a VPN is a
standard connection to the internet,
this is used as the basis for a secure
virtual network.
The most immediate and obvious benefits
of this are cost related, since you
needn’t have expensive dedicated lines
installed at each of your sites. Indeed
a VPN can be up to 90% less expensive to
implement than the alternatives.
Indirect benefits might include routing
voice calls between sites through the
VPN to reduce communications costs.
The other major benefit of a VPN is that
your employees can securely access the
company network from anywhere in the
world.
This has great potential for
home-working or allowing employees on
the road or at client sites to directly
access your LAN and use resources or
access information.
It also has excellent potential as a
tool for technical support. In many
cases a field engineer can resolve
problems with your systems immediately
via VPN without the need for the added
cost and time involved in an on-site
visit.
VPN also has its downsides. Since it
requires the use of the internet it may
cause problems for applications that
require low latency and, of course,
speed may be an issue. USIC will be able
to help you determine if a VPN is right
for you, as well as installing,
configuring and supporting your VPN once
it is in place.
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