Equant offering Small Office Solutions remote access VPN services

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: TIM GREENE ON VPNS
07/19/05
Today's focus: Equant offering Small Office Solutions remote
access VPN services

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In this issue:

* Equant's VPN services come in three versions
* Links related to VPNs
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Today's focus: Equant offering Small Office Solutions remote
access VPN services

By Tim Greene

Equant is offering remote access VPN services based on a wide
variety of vendors' gear placed at customer sites.

Part of Equant's Small Office Solutions services, the new VPN
offering is available in North America and comes in three
versions.

The first service is called Advantage and is for offices with up
to five users. It connects a site to the Internet via a DSL or
cable connection supported by a router supplied by the carrier.

The second service, called Select, is based on a business class
ADSL access line, service-level agreements and access to
Equant's network rather than the Internet at large. It also
includes a router and is designed for larger sites with up to 25
employees.

The final service is Premier, which includes an SDSL access line
to the Equant network, is designed for offices with up to 50
employees and is meant to replace leased line services.

Equant is reselling an underlying service supported by GoRemote,
which supplies Cisco, Juniper, SonicWall or Zyxel customer-site
routers to create IPSec VPN tunnels between the remote offices
and headquarters or data centers.

The service is fully managed and may be a good choice for
customers with many small locations such as retail chains where
increasing IT staff is not an option. It may be especially
attractive to businesses that are increasing the amount of
applications crossing the network between remote offices and
headquarters and where dial-up connections or satellite
connections (with their inherent delays) are causing
bottlenecks.
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To contact: Tim Greene

Tim Greene is a senior editor at Network World, covering virtual
private networking gear, remote access, core switching and local
phone companies. You can reach him at <mailto:tgreene@nww.com>.
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Click here for news, a free demo CD and more. Visit DuPont's
Cabling center today!
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