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Virtual Private Network IS 311 Dr. Gray Tuesday 7pm November 19, 2002 By: Germaine Bacon Lizzi Beduya Jun Mitsuoka Betty Huang Juliet Polintan Table of Contents Introduction ……………………………………………….. 1 - 2 VPN Topology……………………………………………... 2 - 3 Types of VPNs……………………………………………... 3 - 5 Components of VPNs………………………………………. 5 - 7 Productivity and Cost Benefit…………………………….... 7 - 9 Quality of Service………………………………………….. 9 The Future of VPN……………………………………….... 9 - 11 Conclusion…………………………………………………. 11 Bibliography………………………………………………...12 - 13 Questions……………………………………………………14 Introduction Virtual. Virtual means not real or in a different state of being. In a VPN, private communication between two or more devices is achieved through a public network the Internet. Therefore, the communication is virtually but not physically there. Private. Private means to keep something a secret from the general public. Although those two devices are communicating with each other in a public environment, there is no third party who can interrupt this communication or receive any data that is exchanged between them. Network. A network consists of two or more devices that can freely and electronically communicate with each other via cables and wire. A VPN is a network. It can transmit information over long distances effectively and efficiently. The term VPN has been associated in the past with such remote connectivity services as the (PSTN), Public Switched Telephone Network but VPN networks have finally started to be linked with IP-based data networking. Before IP based networking corporations had expended considerable amounts of time and resources, to set up complex private networks, now commonly called Intranets. These networks were installed using costly leased line services, Frame Relay, and ATM to incorporate remote users. For the smaller sites and mobile workers on the remote end, companies supplemented their networks with remote access servers or ISDN. Small to medium-sized companies, who co