Remote working is increasingly becoming commonplace for many organisations.  Whilst it offers a large degree of flexibility and is often a cost effective solution, it can also pose a huge security risk if adequate systems are not put in place to support your remote workers.

To help you ensure that your remote workers are working securely, Apex uses Cisco VPN technology solutions to enable you to reduced costs for secure wide area networking and remote access.  An Infonetics survey quotes average cost reductions in the region of 30% for site to site communications and 70% for remote access.  It should also be noted that these costs are recurring, and therefore provide their cost benefit yearly.

In addition to cost effective Internet access, VPN often can provide more flexibility in the amount of bandwidth available compared to a traditional WAN.  Remote Access facilities can be implemented, or existing facilities improved while call costs to both employer and employee can be reduced.  

Where possible we will help you to reutilise you existing equipment, further increasing your cost savings.  In addition, the potential for WAN and Remote Access provisioned by the same hardware exists.  If a VPN is implemented where there is also a requirement to provide or upgrade a Firewall, then a Cisco product can provide both functions.  The Cisco VPN software client is a zero cost licence option which runs on a range of remote user operating systems.

Standard Cisco benefits also apply to the VPN product range:

• Performance – VPN hardware data encryption and packet throughput dependent on the type of solution
• Reliability – Can be provided by hardware redundancy particularly when a VPN is terminated at a central site
• Functionality – provided by breadth of options and features differentiate Cisco solutions from the competition
• Scalability – a range of platforms provide a starting VPN platform with scope for expansion
• Security – Cisco products supports IPSec, SSL and associated encryption standards, in addition to unique proprietary features
• Modularity – provides flexible and configurable solutions for both hardware and software components
• Interoperability – Cisco’s product range operates end to end avoiding problems with compatibility between different vendors products
• Manageability – provides control and monitoring of the VPN network