Virtual Private Networking is the technology that enables business to take advantage of the advances in Internet connectivity. Creating a VPN can bring real and immediate savings. Linking sites via kilostream is what we have become used to, but the costs involved continue to be enormous. Whilst the costs of telecoms have dropped across the board, kilostream is showing no signs of getting any cheaper. 256k via kilostream will tend to be around 30-40 times more expensive than the equivalent ADSL connection.

For the last few years, the major drawback with VPN has been the scale of the initial expenditure required to link the sites. VPN providers would detail how the savings would eventually be made, but still, if you're trying to make changes in the name of cost cutting, and end up handing the financial controller a bill for the equivalent of a year's connection charges, you begin to question the wisdom of such an undertaking.

This is no longer the case. VPN has settled down as a technology, both in terms of interoperability / reliability and cost. The number of vendors providing VPN technologies has pushed the cost right down, making VPN an easily accessible solution to the SME, the market that VPN was always ideally suited to.

To prove this point, we are providing a service where customers can design their VPN requirement. We will deliver the solution, providing the customer with the branch-office VPN unit absolutely FREE. The unit is the outstanding MultiTech RouteFinder SOHO VPN. All the customer has to do is select the number of sites they wish to connect, and purchase the on-site services from bookanengineer at a very reasonable price.