Case Study: Building a small-business VPN
The obvious solution would have been a secure virtual private network--in this case, essentially a broadband pipe through a telecommunications carrier--linking the two sites. But when amt president Jeffrey Gerstel, who doubles as the company's technical support, explored this alternative, he saw that it wasn't really an option at all. Quotes that ranged as high as several thousand dollars each month scared him off. "We spoke to a few network companies, and the solutions were very expensive," says Gerstel. A vpn was simply too pricey for his tiny company.
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