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No VPN, don't worry

If you don't have a VPN, we can still offer a safe and secure connectivity to your office via a simple, secure and affordable remote-access services for small and midsize businesses and professional users where a VPN is a bad fit.

Do you need a 168-bit encrypted IPSec VPN tunnel to all network resources?  The client version gives users a full LAN connection over Secure Sockets Layer VPN.  You can get access via any Web browser to e-mail, files, drive shares, the company intranet and client-server applications. In addition you can have a host of features, including remote desktop access like GoToMyPC.  Other features include a personal firewall for each connected system, anti-virus protection, support for SecurID and other advanced security schemes, network reporting, drive sharing, data backup, private file areas where folders and drives are hidden until the user is authenticated, and remote application distribution.

Another solution available since 1999, has offered remote system administration and performance-monitoring services to large companies, mainly in Europe.  The tools are highly secure and include a file management system that transfers only file changes.  A year ago, when the company realized its customers used them for remote access, the company built LogMeIn, a remote desktop access service similar to GoToMyPC.  It hosts for each client a dedicated gateway, which remote users connect to gain access to their computer.

For single users and companies with up to 50 users that just need a better way to manage data between PCs - share it, sync it, remotely access it - there's an even better solution than Microsoft provides via its TSWEB product.  Users download an 850K client on the target machine and on the client machine.  Requests go through a dedicated  network, which uses RSA Security key certificates to authenticate clients.  The clients also authenticate one another through the server before each transfer.  The data stream is 256-bit encrypted.

But working remotely is not just getting at your data, it should involve your total work environment.  If you need voice and data at your remote location you may want to have a SOHO box that can network home-office data machines, support traditional, wireless and IP voice services, and provide PBX call features.

IP Office Small Office Edition handles data connections as a small 10/100 Ethernet switch and has enough voice ports to handle many combinations of IP and analog phones and phone lines.

On the WAN side, the device can be plugged into analog phone lines, a DSL or cable modem via an Ethernet port, or a T-1 line via an optional T-1 card.  On the LAN side, Small Office supports any Ethernet-connected device, analog phones or IP phones.

In an office supplied with several IP phones that share up to four analog phone trunks to the public phone network, the box would make the necessary packet-to-analog translation.  Similarly, customers could plug an analog phone into the box and network it with IP phones locally or enable it to make calls over the Internet.

No Citrix, don't worry

Need a Citrix like solution but not the expense.  Use a product that is a server-based product. Users log on to the data centers, where they view their application clients and My Documents folder.  Users work as if the applications are running locally, but all processing takes place on the server. Only screenshots, keystrokes and mouse clicks are transmitted.  The data centers connects to the customer's servers via a VPN.  

The only subscription-model competitor to it is ExpertCity's GoToMyPC, which has seen success in small and home offices, but limited adoption in corporations, in part because of security concerns.  Users install client software on the corporate workstation (often unbeknownst to IT), which lets GoToMyPC punch a hole through the firewall to access the workstation's applications and data.  This method can expose corporate resources to the Internet and bypasses security policies and application management practices.

With this solution the user experience is similar, but the desktop accessed is only an approximation of the actual workstation, populated only with applications and data authorized by IT.  When the user accesses resources on the company's data center, the pixels and keystrokes are encrypted using RSA Security's RC4, 128-bit, using port 443.  The software aggregates all external users into one VPN tunnel between its data center and corporate network.

No Computer, don't worry

We can make these devices work too.

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