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Remote
Connectivity / VPN / Security
With considerable
technology changes over the last several years, the
ongoing trend is to move more and more work towards the
home office. Many offices supply computers or laptops to
many of their employees. Administrators and
Account Managers need remote access to what is happening
back at the home office - and many times they need this
access available from the hotel room on the road - or
the beach by the resort.
Internet access has
connected the entire world together - and the associated
technology (such as most new laptops now including wireless
connectivity or "IP Phones" making your office telephone
extension available anywhere there is an internet
connection) has made accessing the internet -
and thus networks from remote - very common. However,
the balance between security and usability has always
been delicate. In planning for remote
access, the source and the destination of each user on
the network must be planned for - as well as which
files, services, and tasks to which they have access
upon connecting.
Advanced Computer
uses these technologies on a regular basis to not only check in
with it's home office to communicate with clients, but it
also administers several VPN tunnels
between all of Cyber
Broadband's tower sites in which
Advanced Computer personnel own an interest ; as well as
Advanced
Broadband's tower sites across Morgan, Blount, and
Jefferson counties. Our
company has also routinely set up remote access for
insurance agents, account
managers, and associates in law firms. We have also connected multiple remote
sites together such as bank branches, satellite offices,
and even home-office and business-office
networks together in real time.
Oh - - and yes - - we
understand what ipsec, pptp, pppoe, local secure group,
remote secure group, des, 3des, md5,sha, a preshared
key, wpa, ep, radius, phase 1 proposal, phase 2
proposal, and yes - we even know what psk is. :) Without knowing these things, it's very difficult to get
a vpn tunnel up and running - reliably - and secure!
New for 2009:
Cyber
Broadband, in partnership with Advanced Computer, now
offers digital telephone service. This service
allows incoming calls to ring at multiple extensions,
even located at multiple sites, forwarding to cellphones,
and "pull back" to voicemail, and many other features.
We believe in the next five years this technology will
nearly completely replace analog telephone service, and
we're proud to be part of the team making it available
right here across North Alabama!
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