I really do not think that the encryption itself will cause a catastrophic time gain from one to another. You will have to get a beefier system setup or a decent hardware box that will do vpn connections. Also, if not already done you can try segregating the VPN traffic from generic internet/internal network traffic. Nortel and CISCO both have good VPN solutions [hardware boxes] depending on how much $$$ you want to spend. I prefer Nortels Contivity line myself, they do, do VPN'ing better then CISCO but I give kudos' to CISCO for all there routing/firewalling hardware. If you want to use a current system that is in-house then you will be going with a software based VPN solution such as Raptor or Checkpoint. Although these are great as well they tend to be slower then a hardware box, reason being they are doing all the windows stuff as well behind the scenes. If you go this route try Raptor PowerVPN [www.symantec.com] now called Symantec PowerVPN v6.5 easy to configure, manage, and is decent for speed and cost. So you know the different types of encryption that are regularly used are IPsec [DES and 3DES - Difference between the 2 is 3DES just checkes the hash 3 times instead of once], L2TP, and PPTP. Also, you will want to look at how you are setup to authenticate as well, if you are using a third-party 2-factor authentication or RADIUS then it may slow you down and appear to be a performance issue on the VPN side of things. I have seen this happen when I worked for Raptor, and at my current job [Interop Software Tester for another Firewall Co.]
Good Luck C --- Regards, On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:34:18 Mike Carney wrote: >Hello everyone, > >I am tasked with trying to find a faster VPN solution for our company. >Currently we use Microsoft's VPN service running PPTP. Could anyone provide >links that explain the different encryption technologies and the speed that >relates to products that are on the market? Thanks in advance for all those >who reply. > >Mike > Is your boss reading your email? ....Probably Keep your messages private by using Lycos Mail. Sign up today at http://mail.lycos.com
