Corporate VPN's and Retail POS solutions

Site-to-Site VPN
In a distributed business model, branch offices and POS locations extend a company's reach into key markets, but that communication link must be available 24x7 and be able to support the businesses applications. SonicWALL VPN solutions help companies establish centralized control over branch offices, point-of-sale (POS) locations, or remote kiosks providing the robust security and performance needed for business continuance. SonicWALL firewall/VPN solutions enable secure, high-speed communications between multiple locations.

SonicWALL Internet security appliances offer the performance, reliability, and availability that businesses need to communicate. Traditional site-to-site connections require companies to lease expensive, dedicated data lines that are difficult to deploy and manage. With the advent of affordable broadband and standards-based VPN, organizations can deploy secure remote access via ubiquitous Internet connections. With today's VPN technology and broadband connections, companies of any size use the Internet to securely communicate with their multiple locations.

Remote Access VPN
One of the fastest growing remote access applications is telecommuting. Recent analyst studies predict a total of 32 million Internet-connected telecommuters in the US alone by 2004. By 2005, the worldwide telecommuting population is expected to reach 137 million. Telecommuting is changing the way 21st-century companies operate, bringing considerable benefits to both employers and workers:

• Companies can expand their labor pool, to attract the most talented employees regardless of location.
• Operations can be expanded quickly and cost-effectively without opening additional branch offices.
• Employee productivity increases with reduced commuting time and fewer daily interruptions.

SonicWALL's comprehensive solutions make it easy for your organization to meet the challenges - and reap the benefits - of telecommuting. SonicWALL's innovative technology seamlessly extends corporate-level security and privacy all the way out to your telecommuters, regardless of their home networking environments. This gives you the control you need over all remote access points, and ensures the security of your company's network. And for the laptop mobile computing, SonicWALL's Global VPN Client secures connections for employees requiring secure access to business-critical network resources from various locations. SonicWALL's award-winning Global Management System (GMS) provides control over widely distributed networks and can scale to accommodate enterprise growth objectives while easily managing and reporting on remote access locations.

Retail POS
SonicWALL offers a reliable VPN solution designed specifically for the requirements of retailers, including multi-store retail outlets, grocery stores, gas station/convenience stores, and kiosks, as well as hospitality businesses. The SonicWALL solution comprises three elements: the TELE3 SP VPN appliance, a Global Management System, and a VPN concentrator deployed at headquarters.

VPN appliances are deployed at each retail back office and a VPN concentrator is deployed at the central data center or headquarters. The result is secure, end-to-end communications over the public Internet.

High Availability Ensures Maximum Network Uptime
With dial-up services, the reliability of the connection is often determined by 1) the availability of the hardware (is there a back-up modem?) or 2) the availability of the network (is my ISP failing again?). SonicWALL's TELE3 SP has been specifically designed to accommodate both hardware failures through high-availability features like mirrored configurations and redundant power supplies, to integrated network devices such as built in modems. For example, with the TELE3 SP, a cable modem connection fails to an integrated modem design and is "failed back" when the connection is re-established.