前景广阔的虚拟专用网业务

VPN Service With Promising Future

虚拟专用网(VPN)是利用公众网资源为客户构成专用网的一种业务。本文首先回顾了VPN的发展简史,指出经济的全球化带动了VPN的迅速发展,市场需求和技术发展是两大主要推动力。VPN业务可使运营公司、电信客户和最终用户均能受益,其发展趋势是提供数据业务。最后简述了VPN在我国的发展情况。

The VPN service permits to build a private network by using the public network resources. After a brief review of the VPN history, the paper points out that the economic globalization has brought along the rapid development of VPN with the market demand and technical development as two major driving forces. The VPN service is beneficial to the network operators, service providers and end users. The paper concludes with the conditions of VPN in China.