VPN SITE CONNECTIVITY
Secure site-to-site VPN Connectivity Solutions
Seamlessly connect your sites to your chosen endpoints via the Cloud Gateway platform on a ‘bring your own network’ basis, leveraging your existing internet circuits and hardware. This approach allows you to maximise the value of your current infrastructure while benefiting from the security, scalability and flexibility of our platform.
By eliminating the need for additional connectivity investments, you can accelerate deployment, reduce costs, and maintain control over your network environment.
What is site-to-site VPN Connectivity?
VPN Site Connectivity, also known as Site-to-Site VPN (S2S VPN), is a secure technology used by businesses to create a private and encrypted tunnel between physical locations over the internet. Unlike Remote Access VPN which connects individual users, S2S VPN enables a secure network connection between offices, data centres, or even cloud VPN environments.
How does Site to Site VPN work?
We provide you with a set of configurations and credentials, which allow you to build a pair of secure IPSec VPN tunnels from your Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) device(s), to our platform tenancy.
From there, we will establish links to other endpoints on the network estate, depending on your needs.
We’ll provide you with two public IP addresses for VPN termination. It’s important that your IP schema is unique within the network and doesn’t overlap with other services. Geographic separation ensures your service remains resilient at all times.
VPN Site Connectivity is sold as a component of our platform, which means bandwidths for all your site connections will mirror the overall bandwidth capacity of the platform we deploy for you.
If you’re unsure and need assistance, contact us for guidance and support!
BENEFITS
IPSec VPN benefits
Our platform is completely configurable to your needs, allowing you to connect not only sites, but clouds and third party networks without causing disruption or upheaval.
We collaborate with you to design a bespoke platform solution, tailored to meet your immediate challenges while providing the flexibility to scale and adapt as new technologies emerge.
Site VPNs use your existing CPE and internet connection to establish a network link. No new hardware is required, keeping your capital expenditure and running costs down.
Connectivity can be established at a pace that suits you. There's no need to wait for site wayleave, kit delivery or installation - simply add a config to your current Customer Premised Equipment (CPE).
As a technology-agnostic provider, we’re not tied to a single set of tools. This allows us to create a truly bespoke, adaptable solution that's as unique as you are. Simply tell us your requirements, and we’ll do the rest.
We offer a range of advanced security services to safeguard users, devices and data running across your VPN Site Connectivity solution.
Implement security functions like FWaaS, SWG and WAF, protecting all your traffic as part of a comprehensive network security posture.
This ensures end-to-end protection, safeguarding your network from evolving threats while maintaining seamless, uninterrupted access for authorised users. With Cloud Gateway, you can be confident that your network is secure, resilient, and aligned with best practices in the industry.
The Cloud Gateway portal shows your entire connected ecosystem, via a simple, intuitive dashboard. It's packed full of data, allowing you to keep track of your network performance, utilisation and traffic flows in real-time, as well as raise support tickets to our team.
What makes Cloud Gateway's platform unique?
With a traditional vendor, you get cutting-edge technology. With a Managed Service Provider (MSP) you receive reliable, expert support.
Cloud Gateway is uniquely positioned to offer both of these outcomes. Our tech-enabled managed service seamlessly blends an innovative technology platform with best-in-class experts, to deliver a transformative customer experience that is disrupting the network and security market.
The networking sector is evolving, and we’re committed to leading this change. As businesses demand smarter, more flexible solutions, we harness the power of Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) to provide agile, secure, and future-ready connectivity.
We offer flexible and scalable bandwidths, allowing you to provision exactly what you need today, with scope to scale in the future. Add as many simultaneous connections as you want to the network, safe in the knowledge that all traffic is protected and controlled.
FAQ & TROUBLESHOOTING
Frequently Asked Questions about VPN Solutions
Site VPNs provide connectivity for multiple users on the same network at one site. As long as your users are connected to the LAN, they can use the VPN service to reach external resources such as clouds and data centres. Remote Access VPN tunnels are configured on an individual user basis. Each user is authenticated individually, and they don't need to be located at a fixed site.
One common example of VPN Site Connectivity is to serve multiple site locations that may need access to the same resources. For example, a retail organisation with many branches may need to access the same stock ordering system in the cloud, or a healthcare trust with multiple clinics may all need to reach patient records accessed via the HSCN.
If a VPN uses encryption such as IPsec or SSL, then the connection may run more slowly. This is because packets need to be encrypted and decrypted at each end of the connection.
If you find your connection is slow, first check the speed of the internet connection and the amount of CPU you have on the devices at either end of the line. These could have an impact too.
If you conclude that the VPN is indeed affecting your connection speed, a good service provider will be able to test different transmission protocols and settings to optimise the connection performance.
Network overload occurs when the data traversing a network goes beyond its capacity to efficiently handle that traffic.
Efficiently distributing traffic across network resources, such as multiple servers or links, can help prevent congestion and overload. Load balancing ensures that no single resource is overwhelmed. We can help to optimise this for you.
It's important to check the VPN provider’s device compatibility before subscribing to a service, whether this is routing equipment on site or individual user devices. Browser-based VPN extensions can be used if apps are unsupported.
Get started with VPN Site Connectivity
With scalable bandwidths, rapid deployment and no hidden costs, our site connectivity services put choice and flexibility back in your hands.