Challenge
You are responsible for a number of network locations across the country. You have a number of employees or providers that would like remote access to your sites, but you don’t want to invest in any VPN infrastructure nor do you want to manage users and permissions to systems.
Solution
Colony’s hosted VPN solution leverages our site to site and SSL VPN concentrators by coupling them with our identity management engine. This allows us to granularly control which users get access to which remote sites and even more granularly, which systems at those sites. IPSEC site to site tunnels connect our data center with remote sites and an SSL VPN front end makes it easy for users with Windows and Mac devices to remotely connect to those sites by simply visiting our hosted VPN site at https://sslvpn.colonynetworks.com.
Benefits
- Fast roll out and installation
- No capital expenditure on concentrator equipment or configuration
- Can be used like an MPLS network without the quality of service guarantees
- Solution is client less, IT doesn’t need to maintain additional laptop configurations
- Allows remote access for vendors such a point of sale or security camera providers