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Corporate Teleworking

 

Teleworking
Corporations, enterprises and public sector departments are demanding solutions for home-based working employees. Apart from fulfilling legislative requirements, these facilities offer the business benefits of distributed working as well as accommodating the work/life balance needs of their employees.

 The GW6000 series addresses a number of key security issues with home-based access to corporate resources as well as providing an effective solution for voice and data integration:

  • Strong user authentication
  • Separate family and teleworker WAN access routes
  • Secure encrypted corporate access

Security
Companies need to provide simple, secure access to their networks for home-based employees without compromising network security. The GW6000 SMG addresses two aspects of security: data privacy and strong authentication.

Data privacy is achieved by providing an IPSec 3 Des encrypted tunnel from a PC attached to the commuter port of the SMG. The IPSec tunnel is provisioned and managed centrally, simplifying the tasks of setup, in-service management and support.

Before the IPSec VPN tunnel can open to the company network, two authentication tests must be passed.

  • MAC address filtering provides the first level of authentication. Only a pre-registered PC can obtain an IP address and connect to the commuter port of the SMG.
  • Radius provides the second level of authentication. The GW6000 SMG supports the 802.11x protocol, which enables a radius challenge to be extended from the company’s radius servers to the remote user over the broadband connection.

Family Internet Access
Family Internet access creates many security issues for a teleworking solution. The GW6000 SMG includes LAN segmentation, which provides separate, secure family access over the same broadband connection as the corporate PC through the dedicated ‘family’ port on the SMG.

Voice and Data Integration
Finally, Clearway™ VoIP QoS management enables high quality VoIP on standard ADSL circuits in conjunction with concurrent data access. Integrating voice with data access over a single broadband connection provides a significant business benefit because it reduces the hidden potential costs of mobile telephony by integrating IP telephony systems and high quality VoIP.

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