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It's Time to Start Loving Tunnels

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:23:13 -0600

I wrote a blog two years ago about how I could fix anything with a tunnel. Yes, it was a tad tongue in cheek, but it also had some truth to it. Tunnels are a weapon to use when faced with a difficult network design issue. However, as with any weapon, there can be collateral damage. Tunnels have proven to sometimes cost more than they are worth when they introduce sub-optimal routing, MTU issues,...

Cloud Security and VPNs

root — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:45:16 -0600

I remember when Microsoft first introduced PPTP virtual private network technology and sparked a debate about whether or not the Internet could be securely used for remote access. Nowadays, we take VPNs for granted. If you think about it, with VPNs we’ve given up control of the pipe (the Internet), but it doesn’t mean we have to give up control of the data in the pipe.

Cisco VPN client secures PCs, smartphones

root — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:45:31 -0700

Cisco Systems will soon release a VPN client for smartphones and PCs aimed at enterprise administrators who want to provide secure access to their networks and ward off malicious software.

What's next for MPLS?

root — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:45:24 -0700

A look at the new variations of MPLS coming in the near future.

Juniper’s splash big on tech vision, short on specifics

root — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:45:32 -0600

Juniper Networks' wide-ranging announcements on Thursday, billed by the company as the most significant since its founding in 1996, perhaps left more questions than answers after all the products, technologies and partnerships were unveiled.

Secure telework without a VPN

root — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:45:28 -0600

Toronto brokerage firm Octagon Capital ended up choosing an unusual hardware-and-cloud service from Route1 to secure its telework environment.

Amazon VPC is not a private cloud

tludwig — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:45:11 -0600

By Lydia LeongThe various reactions to Amazon’s VPC announcement have been interesting to read.

Private Connectivity to Amazon EC2 – your own Private Cloud, in the Cloud

root — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:45:15 -0600

By Simon Gallagher

VPN connectivity and private networking within EC2 are now available, this is great news – I mused on the possibilities of this sort of thing previously in this post.

This is a key step to gaining corporate acceptance, and proves that there is definitely still a use case and demand for a private cloud,

A Private Extranet for Cloud Computing

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:01:03 -0600

Over the last few weeks I discussed some of the network issues I foresee dealing with Cloud Computing: Read more Networking in the (Storm) Clouds Networking in the (Thunder) Clouds It's Really Only Partly Cloudy Out There

Early Death of Cisco VPN Client Forces VPN License Fees

tludwig — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:45:15 -0600

Cisco has ceased development on the IPSec VPN client, and shifted to pushing the SSL VPN client. But that costs up to USD$125 per VPN client. Is that good for customers ?