NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: TIM GREENE ON VPNS 12/21/04 Today's focus: Cogent targets SMBs with firewall/VPN device
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * Cogent releases Managed Security for SMBs * Links related to VPNs * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by BMC Software Linking IT Priorities to Business Objectives, an IDC whitepaper. Get insights from IDC on aligning business goals and IT priorities. IDC offers practical, actionable information on how Business Service Management can help you reduce operating costs, improve service levels, respond faster to business needs and protect delivery of business-critical. Click here to download this whitepaper now. http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=91637 _______________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] February 13-15, 2005 Scottsdale, AZ 15 years of technology in bloom. Through the years, 1,500 companies have launched technologies live on our stage, a few have launched revolutions. You've heard of Palm, TiVo and Java? [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be the best way to get your head - and your hands - around what's next. http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=91688 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Cogent targets SMBs with firewall/VPN device By Tim Greene Cogent Communications is entering the managed security business with a firewall/VPN offering for small and midsize businesses. Called Managed Security, the service comes in two flavors, advanced and premium. Advanced includes a firewall, remote-access VPN, customer support and online access to firewall/VPN reports, for $199 per month. Premium adds content filtering and desktop anti-virus services for $259 per month. Both services are based on SonicWall TZ 170 firewall/VPN appliances. SonicWall also offers anti-virus and content filtering services. This service is clearly meant for customers who don't have the time, staff or inclination to buy their own box and run their own VPN. TZ 170s cost less than $400, so two months' fee for the advanced service would pay for the device. It's a customer call whether not having to worry about the device is worth the $2,000 extra it costs in the first year after the hardware is paid off. Cogent, which sells dedicated Internet access to businesses in the U.S., Canada and Europe, is branching out from just offering Internet access. The company has been on a buying spree, snapping up customers from other ISPs to boost its revenue. But with the declining cost of Internet access lines, the company needs to offer more complex services to keep customers from being lured away by lower-priced providers. The VPN service is certainly one such way, especially for businesses willing to outsource remote access. For some businesses, $2,400 per year is a good trade-off to having to hire someone to administer the VPN or piling one more chore on an already overloaded admin. 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