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Re: can vpn's extended to mobility

2000-09-23 19:20:02
At 08:00 PM 9/20/00 -0700, dheep vijay b wrote:
It would be of great pleasure if any one could help me finding the solution for whether " vpn's could be extended for mobile computing" if so how to go abt.

A VPN is, by my definition, any case where one overlays the global Internet with another private Internet using tunneling. Tunneling procedures today include MPLS, IPSEC, IP/IP, GRE/IP, and probably several others. The big difference between doing this and doing the same thing over, say, and ATM, Frame Relay, or X.25 network is that the latter things are not the internet. They are virtual circuit switch networks.

MPLS is also a virtual circuit switch network of sorts; the principal difference between it and Frame Relay is that it runs over an arbitrary infrastructure. Could virtual circuit switch be supported from a cell phone? Probably. Is it? No plans that I know of: if you want circuits, they already support TDM circuits.

You could certainly support an IPSEC VPN, though. This amounts to encrypting the tunnel back to the Home Agent for the purposes of talking with other objects that are physically or virtually within the network your home agent is managing, or participating in other VPNs in the same manner.

Im intrested to know more abt WAP(Wireless Application Protocol ) pls do guide me for a better website

http://www.wapforum.org/



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