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Connect all your
business sites securely with Web Hosting Australia's Private network.
With our comprehensive range of connectivity options including: Fibre,
Ethernet, Frame Relay, DSL, ATM, Wireless, ISDN and dial-up, we offer
the highest level of expertise and fully managed solutions in this
specialised field of interconnectivity.
Web
Hosting Australia
specialises in implementing high security, cost effective, WANs
utilising Private Networks technology and offers SMEs access to
the same technology and benefits that traditionally only large corporates
have been able to enjoy.
What is a Private Network?
A Private Network is a connection that allows private
data to be sent securely via a Virtual LAN connection. Private Networks
are a cost effective and efficient way of implementing a business-grade
Wide Area Network (WAN). Private Networks empower companies to extend
their network service to branch offices and remote users in home
offices.
From the user's perspective, a Private Network connection
is a connection between the user's computer and the company's server.
However, where a Virtual Private Network gives the appearance that
data is being sent over a dedicated private link - with a Private
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How does a Private Network Work?
Private Networks work differently to VPNs. Whereas
VPN technology is based on a tunnelling strategy that creates a
private network using TCP/IP to span the Internet, Private Networks
are based on a layer 2 Virtual LAN that is totally secure, extremely
reliable, and protocol independant.
Rather
than placing encrypted packets within encrypted packets within TCP/IP
packets to send them across the Internet to a specified and authenticated
host where they have to be unpacked, decrypted, and used, all of
which takes time and processing power, and introduces latency, the
Private Network is simply created on a dedicated secure connection.
With
a Private Network only devices actually on that VLAN can see other
devices. There is no need to encrypt everything, because there is
no way anyone else can see into the network.
Is a Private Network secure?
One of the huge benefits of a VLAN based Private
Network is that it is totally secure by its design. Only members
of a Private Network can see each other - no one else can see in,
and no one in that Private Network can see out either.
In
fact it's so secure that you cannot even get to the Internet via
a Private Network - you need a separate connection to be able to
do that! That is another difference to a VPN, which is quite capable
of providing a connection to the corporate printer in the city,
as well as allowing the home based telecommuter to browse the Internet
and send and receive email.
Benefits of Private Networks
They provide remote, travelling, and telecommuting workers with
access to central network resources including file servers, printers,
etc.
They securely interconnect satellite offices to enable corporate
intranets for such services as video conferencing and Voice over
IP (VoIP).
They offer a flat rate monthly service charge, with no additional
bandwidth or usage charges. This allows customers to easily budget
for their communications and networking costs.
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