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ALSO CALLED: Private Networks, Virtual Private Networking, V P N, Virtual Private Networks, and VPNs
DEFINITION: A virtual private network (VPN) is a network that uses a public telecommunication infrastructure, such as the Internet, to provide remote offices or individual users with secure access to their organization's network. A virtual private network can be contrasted with an expensive system of owned or leased  … 
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Missing Link: Tech Notes for Enterprise-Class UTM
sponsored by SonicWALL
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
SUMMARY: The consolidation and simplification of security infrastructure that it affords is certainly an attractive, cost saving feature of UTM technology.

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ESG: 3-D Network Security
sponsored by SonicWALL
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
SUMMARY: ESG believes that 3-D network security is available today so there is no time to waste, large organizations should prepare for 3-D network security with a pragmatic and effective plan of attack.

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How to Protect Your Critical Resources with Identity-based Access Control
sponsored by AEP Networks
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 23 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
SUMMARY: This paper addresses the concerns facing network security architects and introduces AEP IDpoint as an advanced IBAC solution that meets datacenter security needs and satisfies modern business security challenges.

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Optimizing WAN Performance: Accelerating Market Growth
sponsored by Burton Group
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 18 Apr 2008 | Published: 03 Jan 2006
SUMMARY: This report, updated by Senior Analyst Eric Siegel, describes cost-effective bandwidth optimization techniques such as compression and caching along with protocol optimization techniques and wide-area file services (WAFS) technologies.

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Realizing Business Value in Managed File Transfer
sponsored by GlobalSCAPE
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 16 Apr 2008 | Published: 15 Apr 2008
SUMMARY: Managed File Transfer (MFT) is optimized for moving data; often bulk data, in a secure way that additionally involves the ability to manage data.

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Sprint Data Link(SM) for Wireless WAN
sponsored by Sprint
DATA SHEET:   Posted: 09 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
SUMMARY: Flexible, reliable wireless alternative to lower WAN costs and provide extra layer of redundancy for business critical applications.

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Disaster Recovery for Critical Communications
sponsored by Storage Decisions
WEBCAST:   Posted: 21 Mar 2008 | When: Available On Demand
SUMMARY: This session will cover how to assess protection needs and test network's recoverability.

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Harnessing the Voice Revolution
sponsored by Singapore Telecommunications Ltd
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 20 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
SUMMARY: The managed services model may enable enterprises to reduce the risks involved in VoIP deployment while tapping into the service provider's expertise to address quality of service and network management issues.

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TOPICS:  PSTN | ROI | VoIP | VPN | WAN

WAN Optimization in MPLS Networks - The Transparency Challenge
sponsored by Expand Networks
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 19 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 May 2005
SUMMARY: Today's modern Wide Area Networks (WANs), such as MPLS networks, provide much more than just a framework for information transport.

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Network Monitoring with Jalasoft
sponsored by JALASOFT
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 10 Mar 2008 | Published: 10 Mar 2008
SUMMARY: A very well integrated solution to monitor your network, applications and servers is the combination of Jalasoft Xian Network Manager Io with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007.

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VPN DEFINITION (continued): …  lines that can only be used by one organization. The goal of a VPN is to provide the organization with the same capabilities, but at a much lower cost.

A VPN works by using the shared public infrastructure while maintaining privacy through security procedures and tunneling protocols such as the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP). In effect,the protocols, by encrypting data at the sending end and decryptingit at the receiving end, send … 
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