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From the outside in: VPN concepts

From the outside in: VPN concepts - Windows Server Tutorial

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From the outside in: VPN concepts

- [Instructor] In the last two segments, we created a private network where work stations, servers, printers, and whatever can use their own addressing plan and freely communicate in their private network without interference from the outside world, but still have a path out to the Internet. And that was fine, until we need to start sending some of our devices out into the world and allow them to participate in our private network as if they had never left. Now, our industry has tried a few ways to address this. For a time we have tried having users dial into the office network over regular phone lines, or slightly faster digital ISDN lines. The idea was that we could take a public network that already existed, the telephone network, and bury our private communication inside those lines. Some companies connected branches with point-to-point connections leased from the phone company, but those services often charged by the mile, making it a poor choice to link the folks in Boston to…

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