The main requirements of WAN are to extend your reach, while taking care of performance and security. At the same time, the aim is to setup cost-effective solutions in the company. Similar rules apply for setting up VPN in your corporate house, so that you are able to extract impressive set of advantages out of these technologies. If your business has multiple locations, effective communication and exchange of data is required. Also, there is need uninterrupted participation of your business branches located remotely. All these issues are served by installing Wide Area Network (WAN) and Virtual Private Network (VPN).

Remote working, where employees work away from an office – at home, is becoming more widespread as both technology and lifestyle considerations reshape the way we do business.
Remote Web Workplace to help streamline and simplify the use and administration of all the remote features. It provides a single access point that users can access anytime, anywhere, from any device. Basically, all they have to do is remember a single URL EG www.symstar.co.uk/remoteworkplace. This feature is only available in SBS 2003 and 2008.The Remote Web Workplace (RWW) is a dynamically updated web site that provides a single, simple, secure, and consolidated entry point for remote users to access SBS features. It empowers external SBS users by providing one place from which all relevant features of SBS, such as Outlook Web Access and the user’s desktop, can be accessed from outside the network firewall.

Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Remote Web Workplace feature overview

• Access from remote computer
• Internet kiosks in airports
• Notebook in hotels
• Work from home
• Own desktop
• Terminal Server
• Remote troubleshooting
• Server problem
• Desktop problem
  

SonicWall SSL VPN 200 Appliance
The dependency on mobile workers has increased and so has the need to provide secure remote access to network resources such as e-mail, files, intranets and applications. SonicWALL® introduces a solution to meet the needs of companies with remote workers. SonicWALL SSL-VPN security solutions for small- to medium-sized networks are simple to deploy and even easier to use. They provide organizations with secure remote network and application access for mobile employees at a fraction of the price of most other SSL-VPN solutions. And, unlike solutions that charge a per-tunnel licensing fee, SonicWALL SSL-VPN solutions have no restrictions on the number of concurrent user tunnels, allowing organizations to scale their remote access connectivity as they grow.

Remote access has never been so simple. Mobile employees only require a standard Web browser to log into a Web portal which provides access to e-mail, files, applications and internal websites. For even more powerful capabilities such as seamless, secure access to any resource on the corporate network including servers and complex or home-grown applications, the appliances transparently push a downloadable thin client (NetExtender) to the user's desktop or laptop.

Features and Benefits
Seamless integration behind virtually any firewall enables organizations to leverage the existing network infrastructure without the need to purchase additional hardware.

Clientless connectivity removes the need for a pre-installed or "fat" VPN client, thus freeing administrators from the tedious and costly task of installing and updating a client on users' PCs. Unrestricted concurrent user tunnels, unlike per-tunnel licensing, significantly reduces the costs associated with deploying a scalable secure remote access solution.

NetExtender technology provides enhanced capabilities such as access to additional resources, services and applications on the corporate network.

Granular policy configuration controls enable network administrators to create policies that "lock down" a user to specific applications/resources and prevent unauthorized access to them.

A personalized portal, provided through a customizable Web interface, displays only those resources that are available to the user based on company policy.

Enhanced layered security is enabled when deployed alongside a SonicWALL network security appliance which utilizes powerful deep packet inspection technology to scan traffic for malicious threats such as viruses, worms, Trojans and spyware.

One-time password* protection is achieved by combining a unique one-time password, with the user's network user name and password, providing enhanced protection against key loggers.

Context-sensitive help is provided throughout the Web-based administrative interface and end user portal, increasing management flexibility and ease-of-use.

*Available only on the SSL-VPN 2000

SonicWALL SSL-VPN solutions can be configured to provide users with simple, secure and clientless remote access to a broad range of resources on the corporate network.