Face Off: Remote Access Servers vs VPNs

摘要

Driven by pressing business needs and shifting social trends, more and more workers are roaming further from their offices. These workers are staffing company offices in far-off locations, laboring on computers in their homes, and working from hotels, convention halls, and conference rooms using laptops and increasingly, wireless computers. They are part of a booming trend of remote access computing. Remote access extends enterprise resources to workers in the field using telecommunications technology. The communications may be across town, across the country, or across the world. As remote access continues to expand, finding the best solution for connecting remote users to the enterprise network becomes increasingly important.