For most businesses, there are two types of VPN that apply:

  • site to site VPN: this is used to link sites, such as your office and the data center,
  • mobile VPN: this is used to link mobile or home users to a corporate site, or a data center.

The mobile VPN to your office is typically free, you just need to pay a one time setup fee and sometimes an extra license fee depending on the vendor. If your firewall is based on pfSense, there are no extra license fees.

The site to site VPN is typically priced on a per channel basis, to cover our bandwidth and virtual port costs on the terminating firewall in the data center. This is optional, and you can decide to sign up for that service once there is a clear business case for it.