Site to Site VPN
Site-to-site VPN provide secured connections from one geographic location to another, by placing two VPN servers at each location. These will make resources from one location available at the other location, example employee at the remote office will be able to access resources from the HQ branch as if he is directly connected to the HQ's network. Site-to-site VPN only requires to establish one tunnel connection with the VPN servers in order for all employees at the remote office to be able to access the HQ's network.
There are two types of Site-to-site VPN, which serves different purposes:
Intranet - To link the company's own remote offices/branch over dedicated connections (Not open for public)
Extranet - To link to the LAN of business partners, suppliers or customers, in order to work together in a secure environment, yet prevents separate access to the intranets.
Remote Access VPN
Remote access VPN allow connection for any remote users through the Internet to the private network of the company. Remote access VPN can be access using Internet browser or specific VPN softwares. Each client connecting using the remote access VPN, will establish an individual connection with the VPN server location at the network of the company.
