Pros/Cons P2P VPN

linnea.wren · ‎06-23-2009

Hi,

My org has 5 sites. The WAN is a star - One site connects to the center over fiber, another over Opt-E-Man, the last two over P2P T1s.

All 5 sites have their own internet connections. It's a community college district, our internet links are provided by a state-wide educational ISP.

The ISP is upgrading the internt connections to gigabit.

We're considering replacing the Opt-T-Man and the 2 T1s with P2P VPN over the gigabit links.

Any thoughts on the pros and/or cons of doing things this way?

I'm thinking pros are save money, establish a mesh without spending extra money, and get better speed between sites.

Can't really think of any cons, but I have a lot to learn, so I'm thinking this may be a case of I don't know enough to know what I don't know.

Anyway, any thoughts or suggestions would be most helpful.

Linnea

jan.nielsen · ‎06-24-2009

One con could be stability on the Internet, you should make sure that your SLA for the internet connection is the same or better than the T1/Metro connection. Also if your Internet is not a redundant link, you will introduce a single point of failure connectionwise.