You will be terminating your VPN tunnels on end devices such as firewalls or
routers. The encryption performance has more to do with your equipment than
it does the provider. The carrier just sees routable packets with ip
addresses. I would concentrate on having beefy enough hardware to carry the
extra processing needed to encrypt and decrypt packets. Keep in mind that if
you are using a CA, your processing load goes up 100 times(not just 100%.)
more than say pre-shared keys. As for the provider, see what kind of a
reputation and support they have. Either way, it sounds like you are going
to end up dealing with an un-familiar provider.
HTH,
MikeN
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> Hey guys,
>
> My company is using point-to-point frame-relay (64k CIR) between an office
> in NY, and an office in Malaysia (Other side of the world).
> All of the Malaysian Internet access and email comes through NY first and
> then out to the Internet. It is costing us around 5k/month.
> We put some voice over the frame as well...
>
> Anyway, we are looking to get rid of the frame (for performance as well as
> cost reasons) and give the other site their own connection to the
Internet.
> Then we will put a VPN between the two sites.
> We are using WorldCom for our T1 to the Internet in the NY office.
WorldCom
> does not offer Internet services in Malaysia as of right now. However
they
> do offer net access in Singapore which is very close by. We also have a
> small office in Singapore that we can use...
>
> My question is: Would we be better off going from NY to Singapore with
the
> VPN because we can both stay with WorldCom and then bring a link from
> Singapore into Malaysia... Or, just go with a Malaysian service provider
> for their Internet access and go from NY straight into Malaysia with the
> VPN. I've checked both options out, and both are feasible and more cost
> effective than what we are doing right now.
>
> In other words, does staying with the same provider (even on the other
side
> of the world) give big performance increases when dealing with VPNs?
>
> Thanks a million in advance for any help.
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