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How does Flextunnel VPN work?
The downside to a VPN (Virtual Private Networking) has always been the difficult and highly technical setup and maintenance process. Typically your entire computer network has to be changed to support a solid VPN setup, however, with FlexTunnel VPN setup it is now as easy as plugging in two wires.
The LeapServ® network appliance sits on your local network and acts as a VPN access device to the FlexTunnel VPN network. It can then be configured to route traffic between your physical offices or to connect laptops and PCs on the Internet into your office using a simple software client.
IP Addressing Magic
Even if the locations that are being connected are using completely different IP address ranges, your FlexTunnel VPN connection can help you easily share resources between the sites. For example, if one of your offices uses IP addresses in the 192.168.1.x range, those devices can be mapped to your other offices in different IP ranges. Let’s say your file server in Houston has the local IP of 192.168.1.25 but you want it to appear on your Philadelphia LAN at IP address 10.0.0.24. This is no problem with FlexTunnel VPN.
No Central Location
When you use FlexTunnel VPN service to connect your multiple locations, there is no central VPN location. This means that all of your locations can transfer data between each other without being limited by the bandwidth available at your main office. This also helps keep your increasing VPN traffic from degrading your available bandwidth.
Under a traditional VPN setup, your locations cannot communicate if there is a problem at the main office where the concentrator is. This is not the case with FlexTunnel VPN. Regardless of which offices may be offline, the others can still communicate and authorized people will be able to connect to them from laptops and PCs on the Internet.
Tier-1 All of the Time
The VPN traffic on your FlexTunnel VPN network is traveling over Tier-1 Internet connections the whole way. Instead of traversing a private network that can have congestion build up over time or might be subject to unpredictable bandwidth exploits, FlexTunnel VPN connections travel over Tier-1 bandwidth providers straight to your Internet provider’s network.
Our goal is super-low latency connecting your locations. We strive for all of our FlexTunnel VPN connections to have a consistent round trip ping time below 100 milliseconds. Although some of the factors which contribute to network congestion and latency are outside of BitLeap®’s control, we will work with you and the carriers to try to keep your connection as zippy as possible.
Safe & Sound
Data transfers between your locations over BitLeap’s FlexTunnel VPN network are encrypted and secure. Only your authorized locations equipped with BitLeap servers or client software with authentication are able to tap into your FlexTunnel VPN connection.