Quad Help to Remotely Connect to your Main Office
A Secure and Reliable Remote Connection
We take the security of our data very seriously. Without compromising on speed or reliability, we needed a solution which allowed remote workers to connect to the office securely. Quad were able to provide us with the
correct ADSL package, along with the hardware needed to connect the sites. Quad provide excellent value for their first-rate services allowing our remote workers to complete their jobs from home.
Passing Information Over The Internet
The diagram below shows how the Internet works. Every device on the Internet,
whether it's your own PC or a huge web service like Google has an IP address.
The intermediate networks pass your data to the next 'hop' on the way to your
destination. If you follow the red or green lines, you can see that your data is
passing through several other public routers, and therefore through the hands of
many unknown networks, any of whom could monitor and store your data without you
ever knowing.
So, you can send data between your office and factory directly
across the Internet, but you certainly wouldn't want to.
You need some way of ensuring that your data can pass through the internet without it being "read" by
the routers through which it passes. You need to make this network private. This
can be done by creating a Virtual Private Network (VPN).
Creating a Virtual Private Network
Two remote sites (say your Sheffield and Doncaster offices) can appear to have a
private connection between their two networks but actually, the data is passing
over the Internet. Using a system called tunnelling, a device at each end
bundles up all data intended for the other site, encrypts it and passes it over.
Your computers still cannot be reached from the outside world, except through
the VPN tunnel. That VPN tunnel has only two ends - one in your Sheffield
office, the other at your Doncaster office.
Once you have a VPN, your network
users can still access the Internet and surf the web normally - all Internet
traffic passes freely outside of the VPN tunnel. You can have multiple VPN
tunnels, each one to a different remote location. The use of the word 'tunnel'
is very helpful in understanding the concept; although the data is still passing
over the public Internet, it's all inside the tunnel which cannot be decoded or
intercepted by any of the intermediate Internet locations. Your data is secure.
What to do Next...Get in touch!
We, at Quad, understand that different organisations have different requirements when it comes to remote working. We
have years of experience and many sites installed, so we can tailor a secure, reliable and robust solution to suit you.