The main benefit of a VPN is the potential for significant cost savings compared to traditional leased lines or dial up networking. These savings come with a certain amount of risk, however, particularly when using the public Internet as the delivery mechanism for VPN data.
The performance of a VPN will be more unpredictable and generally slower than dedicated lines due to public Net traffic. Likewise, many more points of failure can affect a Net-based VPN than in a closed private system. Utilizing any public network for communications naturally raises new security concerns not present when using more controlled environments like point-to-point leased lines.
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