Remote sites can access corporate databases, update inventories and share files and applications. Businesses can execute transactions with trusted suppliers and clients. For each, a VPN is convenient, secure, affordable and reliable. A VPN creates a tunnel through the Internet by encapsulating and encrypting packets of data. The tunnel itself is first established through a process of authentication, where the identity of the source and destination is verified.
All traffic travelling through the tunnel is encrypted to ensure that it is private and secure.
The Internet has been deployed globally. Anyone can get access to the Internet from almost anywhere in the world. This gives organizations true global access to their networks. As Internet access becomes faster and more reliable, organizations can dramatically increase the bandwidth between sites, and use this additional bandwidth to provide branch offices with additional services. However, SMBs can achieve major improvements in bandwdith with standard dial-up connections by using Stallion's ePipe scalable Internet gateway .