POWER UP YOUR SMALL-MEDIUM BUSINESS: A GUIDE TO ENABLING NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES

Power Up Your Small-Medium Business

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As businesses grow, they need to connect an increasing number of users

across campuses and remote branch offices to share information and resources.

The traditional way to handle this was to build a private, intracompany wide area

network (WAN). For a small or medium business, that kind of private WAN can

be prohibitively expensive to build and manage. Dedicated, leased lines and the

equipment that works with them to interconnect offices can be expensive, and each

location to be connected must have its own leased line and equipment. Virtual

private networks (VPNs) are an affordable alternative to leased-line netw ...