Definitions for "Virtual Private Networks"
VPNs offer companies a means to interconnect branch and remote offices to the information technology resources at the main office, and to keep telecommuters and business travelers in touch and productive, whereever they may be. An IP VPN service offers the security and policy management capabilities of a network built from leased lines, but over a shared, lower-cost environment. Some are based on the public Internet, while other service provider offerings make use of private IP network facilities.
Network resources provided to users, on demand, by public carriers such that the users view this partition of the network as a private network.
Networks that are essentially private, but use the Internet in lieu of expensive leased phone lines between offices.
a secure connection between two points across the Internet for transmitting corporate data and is available from Internet service providers (ISPs)