A vpn concentrator is exactly that, device that terminates vpn tunnels. The blue socket wireless gateway does much more than that. We use ours to ensure that no one gets anywhere past the edges of the wireless lan without a valid university account to authenticate at the box. Users can choose to or not to vpn-encrypt their session. The box logs addresses, it can allow only certain protocols to certain addresses, it's really a good product. Aside from some growing pains, we like ours.
-Rick
At 08:28 AM 10/9/2003, Bradford B. Saul wrote:
Ok, so what is the real difference between Bluesocket and a VPN concentrator? They seem to perform the same function. Why would I use Bluesocket vs. VPN?
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