Technical specifications of Dedicated VPN
Technical features
- Topology Options. Verizon Business® offers Hub and Spoke, Fully Meshed, and Joined VPN designs to support your communications requirements.
- Standards-Based Technology. IP VPN Dedicated Services rely on industry standard IPSec tunneling and end-to-end encryption protocols.
- VPN Security. Verizon Business uses a key management system based on SNMP V3 passwords to maintain control over access to your VPN.
- Automated Management. The equipment required for IP VPN Dedicated Services also includes automated management options that allow you to dynamically change your security policies.
- Fail-Over Support. Verizon Business' Frame to VPN fail-over configuration provides a back-up communications path if your frame relay connection becomes unavailable.
- Resilient Node Designs. Verizon Business also offers resilient node designs that provide shadow and ISDN backup, load-sharing configurations, dual CPE fail-over, super-hub designs, and cold spare options.
- Network Address Translation (NAT). Your remote users are able to connect through third-party broadband access providers.
Technology requirements
- Dedicated Connection. A dedicated T1 or T3 connection to Verizon Business' global IP backbone is required.
- Customer Premises Equipment. IP VPN Dedicated Services is based on either the Lucent Access Point router, or a Cisco encrypting router. In addition, an out-of-band modem and all required cables are provided with your service package.
Implementation path
Your Verizon Business sales representatives will work closely with you to evaluate your network needs to help determine the most effective managed VPN solution. We also consult with our engineers to ensure the IP VPN Dedicated Services solution is the best one for your organization.
If your application includes a dial component, or has any non-U.S. locations, we are required by the U.S. federal government to perform export screening to verify that all applicable countries allow the import and export of encrypting routers and encryption technology. Both these processes are usually completed within several days of submitting the required paperwork.
- Opportunity Review process to approve application
- Contract presented to customer
- Orders submitted
- Provisioned and fulfilled
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Protect your data with state-of-the-art security from Verizon Business
IP VPNs use industry-standard tunneling, encryption, and authentication to provide secure and private data services over a shared network infrastructure.
How it works
- Tunnels allow private network sessions to run inside public network sessions (IPSec)
- Encryption is used to “scramble” confidential information as it travels across the shared network (DES or 3DES)
- Authentication determines if the gateway or user is allowed access
- Authorization mandates what the user is permitted to do on the network
The technologies
Securing the data
- IPSec protects/authenticates IP packets between IPSec devices
- DES and 3DES invoke 56-bit keys to encrypt 64-bit blocks of data
- Firewalls can help protect your network—and your PCs—from port-scanning, intrusion, and other malicious acts
- PKI lets public network users exchange data more securely using digital certificates
- Strong Authentication combines something the user has and something the user knows
Tunneling
Tunneling is a means of sending traffic to a destination by encapsulating data packets.
- IP Security (IPSec) has become one of the most widely used means of securing data by many VPN component manufacturers:
- Protects/authenticates IP packets
- Provides for authentication, confidentiality, and integrity
- Enables split tunneling
- Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) can be used two ways:
- As a means of destination management
- As a network-based tunnel tool by Internet service providers
Encryption
Encryption renders sensitive data useless if intercepted by unintended parties.
- DES invokes keys to encrypt, or scramble, blocks of data
- Both sender and receiver must use the same key when sending and receiving the message
- Triple DES (3DES) achieves a higher level of security by encrypting the data three times over
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