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Despite broadband internet connections are widely available at employees homes, not all companies make use of the advantages of teleworking and comfortable remote access from home and abroad.
Also a lot of processes could be simplified, if applications and data at remote offices would work the same way at the same speed as applications in the headquarter.
3S: speed, security, switching
VPN solutions which in addition to secure tunneling includes compression and seamless network handover. This means, without loosing the connection state, the VPN client can seamleassly change to the most efficient connection (GSM, GPRS, UMTS, LAN, broadband, Bluetooth, internal and public W-LAN). Theclient uses port 80 and therefore will be available over most network connections in the middle east.
Unlimited VPN tunnels, highly available
Firewall should offer the highest encryption using the AES-256 standard in conjunction with client certificates and smartcard solutions, as well as unlimited VPN tunnels. A firewall cluster should support active VPN session handover from one node to the other without loosing connection if one node has to be shut down for maintenance.
Limiting WAN bottlenecks
Traffic shaping appliances that eliminate the bottleneck from slow WAN links. They transmit chatty protocols more efficient and therefore prevent bottlenecks caused by long latency. In addition they enhance communication with caching and compression, in total speeding up connections up to factor 100, depending on type of traffic.
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