Sales of virtual private networking (VPN) products and services should top $21.3bn this year, according to the latest estimates from San Jose, California-based market research firm Infonetics Research Inc, with future spending levels more than doubling by 2006. . . .. Sales of virtual private networking (VPN) products and services should top $21.3bn this year, according to the latest estimates from San Jose, California-based market research firm Infonetics Research Inc, with future spending levels more than doubling by 2006. Based on a series of interviews with 240 network managers at organizations already using remote access, site-to-site and/or extranet VPNs, Infonetics maintains that expenditure will grow 117% between 2002 and 2006. As for technology adoption, market trends indicate that IPSec will remain the dominant tunneling and encryption technology used for VPNs, but that SSL-based products will start to see ready acceptance in certain verticals, or when used for certain scenarios like secure remote access to web-based applications. . The market for virtual private network (VPN) solutions is projected to surpass $21.3 billion in revenue this year, based on analytical forecasts.. VPN Products, Networking Services, Remote Access Solutions. . Anthony Pell
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