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Virtual private networks (VPNs)

Virtual private networks (VPNs)

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Virtual private networks (VPNs)

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- I spent a lot of decades on the road teaching people about computers and networks. I've got close to a million miles flying all over the world, and as a result of that, I've spent a lot of time in airports wishing I was back at the office. It would be so nice if I'm sitting in Denver or in Amsterdam or somewhere in Canada when I'm sitting with my laptop. It would be nice if I was back in the office where I could print to my printers, or I could share folders and I could access stuff off of my file servers. I would really like that. Well, a lot of other people do too. And what we call that is Virtual Private Networking, or a VPN. Basically what we're doing is we're taking the internet, the most public of all networks, and turning it into a fake, a "virtual," private network. We're taking the internet and it's as though we're taking a chunk of Cat 6 cable from our switch all the way out to the Denver airport and plugging me in. I've got an IP address just like I'm at home. I can see…

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