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SSL VPN: Secure Socket Layer Virtual Private Network

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Virtual Private Network (VPNs) can provide secure and private communications for any types of traffic between the devices equipped with the same SSL technologies across a public network such as the Internet. A competing technology of the SSL VPN is the IPsec VPN. Actually, SSL is best used as the remote access and mobile access VPNs while IPsec is the best to create VPNs among fixed sites.

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Tunneling, IPsec, SSL, TLS, PPTP, L2TP, L2F , SOCKS 5, Encryption, Encapsulation , MPLS VPN, IPsec VPN