An advantage of VPN technology is the automotive dealership is not “tied” to a single network provider.

Network Professional Services proven VPN technology is totally transportable between Internet Service Providers (ISP's) thus allowing the dealership to choose the most economical ISP that can meet the groups needs.

Most private network connections range from $300 to $800 per month, and are often more, with hidden extra costs.

NPS VPN connections start out at just $60 per month per connection point, and rarely cost more than $99 per month!

Up to 20GB of data is included in these figures and additional data can be purchased very cost effectively.

If we take a seven site private network based on costs of $300 per month per connection, and replace it with an NPS network that has a typical average cost of just $73 per month for an equivalent or faster connection, an automotive retail group can expect to save up to $65000 in data communications costs over a three year period.

If we extrapolate this out over a large group, it could be that the savings could be measured in the hundreds of thousands of dollars over three years.

Virtual Private Networks are deployed using specific routers known as Unified Threat Management (UTM) devices.

They work by taking the traffic on a customers local-area-network (LAN), encrypting it and sending it through a tunnel over the Internet, and decrypting the traffic at the remote location, and placing the traffic on the remote LAN. This gives you the same or similar functionality as typical DSL private networks.

3DES 168 bit encryption is employed on the routers, thus protecting the payload contents while traversing the Internet. Coupled with a full stateful inspection firewall and UTM the routers provide a complete security solution suitable for use with automotive retail networks.