Vodafone Business Services (VBS), the enterprise arm of Vodafone India, has launched a complete suite of services under Remote Connect to cater to the needs of enterprises to connect remote locations.

This will enable enterprises to connect business partners, expand business reach, and extend connectivity to travelling employees. The noteworthy benefit of this suite of services for CIO is to improve network uptime by creating back up connectivity. With these, Vodafone will unearth the true potential of VPN connectivity demand of India enterprises.

Naveen Chopra, Director, Vodafone Business Services said, “This bouquet of integrated services for businesses aims to ensure uninterrupted and secured communication and will empower Indian enterprises to keep pace with the evolution in digital communication. It will help us unearth the true potential of VPN connectivity demand of Indian enterprises. Vodafone endeavors to offer products and services that focus on varied aspects of the Indian Enterprises’ telecommunications requirements. The introduction of Remote Connect Suite is another step to establish Vodafone as a Total communications provider.”
 
Remote Connect Suite offers customized solutions for enterprises which is over and above the services offered under Wireline portfolio, which include Private Leased Circuits (National and International), Internet Leased Lines, Office Wireline Voice and Audio  Conferencing Services. The services available under Remote Connect suite include IPsec VPN, SSL VPN, Dial up VPN and MPLS VPN with 2G/3G API Solution.
 
IPsec VPN – This allows enterprises to connect locations over Internet through Secure IPSec gateway deployed by Vodafone. It is Internet Service Provider agnostic and supports Dynamic VTI, data encryption over Internet (Support for IKEv2 encryption) and Dead Peer Detection (DPD).

SSL VPN – It enables enterprises to connect locations over Internet through SSL gateway deployed by Vodafone. It helps in anytime, anywhere access via Web Browser and comes with a self-care portal for IT administrator to enable various policy settings. It has Application Layer Security making it a very secure virtual platform.

Dial up VPN – This service allows enterprises to connect locations over ISDN through NRAS gateway deployed by Vodafone. It is ISDN network provider agnostic and supports L2TP & PPP protocol.

MPLS VPN with 2G/3G API Solution – It helps enterprises to connect locations over 2G/3G network. It offers a private dedicated APN for each customer which is highly secure vis – a – vis a shared APN solution. It is easy to install and deploy and has a quick turnaround time.