Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Securely Sending Data Between Sites

Virtual IP Private (VIP) Network

Companies must maintain security for communications shared between locations at every point along the network - whether within their private networks or with outside partners.

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) use encryption technology rather than old-fashioned, expensive hard-wired solutions to make communications between geographically separated users truly private and secure.

The Prospeed.net Virtual IP Private (VIP) Network deploys VPN technologies to encrypt data as it transverses our Protected Service Network by using Triple-DES (168-bit) encryption and secret key cryptology. This technology breaks data into blocks before encrypting it, then securely transmits these blocks using the latest IPSec algorithms and packet-processing technologies that secure everything in the network.

This means your company can use a VIP - supporting as many as 7500 tunnels - to securely share information and resources among users as though they are all on the same local area network (LAN).

ProSpeed.net's powerful VIP service is flexible in both scale and topology:

• Invisible to outside users.
• No "hidden charges" for mileage between facilities.
• Offers alternatives for how users access each other-
        - "Meshed Topology" without passing through a central site to reduce drain on
           central central resources, or
        - "Star Topology" sending all traffic through a central location for control of
           satellite locations.

Firewalls: - info still needed.