B2B VPNs, or equivalent?
 

I am working with a client trying to setup a public internet access option so that employees from my company can use the existing VPN clients on their laptops to access our corporate network.

The client won’t allow a dedicated broadband connection to the public internet (DSL, Cable Model, ISDN, or the equivalent of FTTH) anywhere on their facility, nor will they allow our laptops to connect to their corporate network. So, they have suggested a business-to-business VPN, with a limited set of applications on our corporate end of the VPN connection.

I’m curious to know about others experiences in similar situations, do you have broadband access to the public internet at a client’s site? … from which you can use your corporations VPN client? If not, how have you accessed your corporate network (dialup, wireless, etc.)?

We find ourselves in the position of being at a client’s site where they have invested millions $$ in a corporate network, yet we can’t accomplish what we can do in our home offices (or our hotel rooms) with a $45/month broadband connection.

My company has similar restrictions and uses an AT&T VPN client with a security token to meet their requirements.

VPN's work fine, regardless of speed
 

I have installed and used Cisco, F5, netopica and Firebox VPN's, I prefer the CISCO's
This was using either a Hardware point to point solution from one client site, to another, seamless to the user. Or, they are using the simple MSFT VPN DUN client, or now the CISCO local client. This works very easilly, and is centrally adminstered for user name, password and domain.

Even on dialup, exchance access, file sharing and some shared appliction usage is fine. Broadband, makes it just like being in the network at work

On your laptop get CDPD service or a DataWireles from Sprint or T-mobile and that should allow to run a VPN on top to your HQ no ?

Yes, high speed wireless will obsolete all the aforementioned problems. Our group is waiting for Verizon's EV-DO service to be rolled nationwide.

I'm sure this technology will be overwhelmingly accepted by all traveling consultants and road warriors. The companies that go to great lengths to block any VPN/IPsec packets from getting out of their networks will have will have problems in countering this.