 | Anon | DSL Telecommuter Services for 250 people ? I am trying to figure out a cost effective way to provide remote LAN acess into my users home in a cost effective manner. My users are all over the country. My company is quite paranoid about security so they are leaning to a layer 2 solution that our local phone company is recommending (this will not work throughout the country). However, I am of the belief that a layer 3 architecture with firewalls and encryption has the best flexibility to reach all of my users, but is there a decent way to get these services today from a DSL provider? | |
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 | | Anon | Re: DSL Telecommuter Services for 250 people ? Check out www.uroam.com You can get the access and security that you need with this web-based solution. | |
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| | Anon | The short answer is Yes. Unfortunately, you will have to find the lesser of many evils in terms of software and outsourced services vendors. The main problem is that the majority of clients will need client software to support anything outside of MS PPTP, such as IPSec and L2TP. Win 2000 will work out of the box with Cisco implemetations of IPSec, and Nortel access servers support PPTP as standard if you want the cheaper less secure options that work with all MS client OS. We are in the process of doing the same research to get rid of ISDN and also the SmartCard dial up service (private network) offered by our current vendor (UUNET). This is not an easy task. Although DSL looks attractive, there are several problems associated with access, especially when bandwidth is investigated. 250 people using 784K DSL connections coming into corporate over T1 each with 128K upstream capability can saturate your inbound connection in no time. You will need to be very careful when doing your math and deciding which is the best way to provide secure connections over the public internet.
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| | Anon | Bluestar Communications offers a Telecommute product over SDSL. The cost is $139/month for speeds up to 768Kbps(contingent upon the distance your employee lives from the CO). This is 24/7 access. It is as if your employee is sitting at his/her desk accessing your corporate LAN. This is a dedicated line. There are install and routers fees as well. Great product. Check them out at www.bluestar.net. | |
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| Anon | Non-Tech telecommuter needs help I have recently ordered an RADSL line for my house and was hoping it would help my telecommuting. I have been told by one of our systems people that it won't help because the only way for me to log on to the LAN remotely is through a standard modem (I usually use PC anywhere from my desktop at home). He says my DSL will not be compatable. Is there anyway around this? How? PLEASE ANSWER WITH AS LITTLE TECH TALK AS POSSIBLE! | |
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| | Anon |  Re: Non-Tech telecommuter needs help
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| Jeremiah,
For a VPN all you theoretically need is for both sides to be connected to the Internet. On your side of things it is pretty easy to setup. On the company side of things, there are lots of issues. I don't blame the support person for blowing you off with his poor response.
A more honest answer may be that they are not sure how to set it up or there are too many security concerns for installing one.
Bottom line is that if your company has an Internet connection and that connection has some route to the internal network it can be done. | |
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| wpadilla
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| Check to see if your DSL provider has implemented L2TP (Layer Two Tunneling Protocol) on their Service Selection Gateway. Rather than terminating your PPP session at the SSG it can set up a secure tunnel and terminate the session at your employers premise (We use Cisco 2621 routers with IOS 12). Your employer will have to set up their side of the system, i.e. RADIUS, DNS, etc...
It is a hassle, for both the DSL provider and the employer but it is a workable solution. | |
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Why not use FREE vpn software?