Remote Network Access and VPNs

Remote Network Access and VPNs (Virtual Private Networks)

LANtek can create safe, secure remote access to your network from outside, enabling employees to work from home or from the road, seamlessly accessing their email and network applications. One way to do so is by creating a Virtual Private Network.

Virtual Private Networks typically are IP-based networks (usually the public Internet) that use encryption and tunneling to achieve one or more of the following goals:

connect users securely their own corporate network (remote access)
link branch offices to an enterprise network (intranet)
extend organizations' existing computing infrastructure to include partners, suppliers and customers (extranet)

BENEFITS OF REMOTE NETWORK ACCESS

Your main office can access branch office desktops
Your branch office can access main office server
Your employees can access email, files, programs and network resources from home or the road
System administrators can remotely access and manage multiple PCs from anywhere
Your sales force can access applications and documents and continue to work while on the road

Your company network is a private data communications infrastructure with predictable application availability, performance and security. When your data travels over the Internet, you drastically increase its exposure and vulnerability, and performance issues such as bandwidth constraints must be considered. Security becomes a major issue. Data in transit across the Internet is subject to such threats as spoofing, session hijacking, sniffing, and man-in-the-middle attacks.

LANtek can help by first providing the equipment and expertise needed to create the remote connection to your network. Devices such as routers (to direct the traffic) and firewalls (to protect the data) are used to create a safe and secure Internet connection. Secondly, our solutions provide the confidentiality, integrity, authentication, performance and data availability necessary for the successful transfer and security of your data.

LANtek uses products from Microsoft and Citrix to allow you to connect remotely to your applications from your network server. With remote access, your staff can connect to these applications remotely, from their homes, airport Internet kiosks, smart phones, and other devices outside of your corporate networks. Our solutions can even provide efficient access to data over low bandwidth, offer remote management, and, when applicable, reuse of older hardware.

The idea is to extend trust relationships across an economical public network without sacrificing security. Your VPN should behave similarly to your private network; it should be secure, highly available and have predictable performance. Since each network is different, LANtek’s highly skilled technical staff can suggest just the right combination of products to create secure remote access for your staff.

Call 610-683-6883 to speak to LANtek about remote network access.