Article: Remote access: Have it your way.(Buyers Guide)

In the remote access arena, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Vendors continue to increase port capacity, improve security and beef-up fault tolerance. While buyers' options increase, however, the fundamental technology behind today's remote access devices remains largely as it was last year.

From a network manager's standpoint, traditional direct-dial remote access has a lot going for it. It's familiar, it's relatively easy to implement and it uses standard communications software. The newest direct-dial remote access gear supports hundreds of users on a single chassis without the banks of individual modems and the nest of wiring we saw just a ...

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