We have had some security problems recently. One approach would be to route all traffic to/from the office through a VPN.
I'm worried about this as the cheaper VPN solutions are reported to drop after a few hours. There will be background traffic so the longest period without any packets over the VPN would be 60 seconds.
While it would be nice to be able to just through money at this the equipment in the small office will be of the Cisco SMB price range, including the newer 881/887-VAM. The equipment does not have to be Cisco I give this as a cost guide. The priority is security and then uptime. Realistically I would be looking for 99.9% uptime. Connections that just drop every 2 hours would not be acceptable.
It would be interesting to know how this would compare with an openvpn connection for reliability.
Rob.
I'm worried about this as the cheaper VPN solutions are reported to drop after a few hours. There will be background traffic so the longest period without any packets over the VPN would be 60 seconds.
While it would be nice to be able to just through money at this the equipment in the small office will be of the Cisco SMB price range, including the newer 881/887-VAM. The equipment does not have to be Cisco I give this as a cost guide. The priority is security and then uptime. Realistically I would be looking for 99.9% uptime. Connections that just drop every 2 hours would not be acceptable.
It would be interesting to know how this would compare with an openvpn connection for reliability.
Rob.