The right connection for every distance
Organisations are increasingly operating across offices, factories and warehouses at different locations. How you connect to another site of your organisation depends largely on the distance between headquarters and the second location. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection is often chosen as the standard for each connection. However, for a short-distance connection (within the Benelux) there are many alternatives: think of a high-speed private connection via the Eurofiber network, MPLS (Multi-Protocol Layer Switching) or a microwave link.
At the same time, setting up an international VPN connection is by no means always a straightforward task. You need to take into account local internet providers and latency issues; and then there is also the so-called 'Great Firewall of China'... For a stable connection over long distances, it is therefore best to also have a good load balancing solution (e.g. Citrix Netscaler and Azure Traffic Manager). Load balancing ensures that users who want to communicate with a particular server are automatically connected to the server that is geographically closest. This way, you avoid overloading certain servers and latency issues due to the long distance.