Subcontracting VPN Solutions?

musikit asks: "My company has recently decided that they have too many sites to have people e-mail back and forth requests for forms, and documentation. They would like to find a subcontractor that would set up a site-to-site VPN connect which would allow our system to do all the usual tasks (http, https, webdav, samba, imap, pop3, etc). I have been looking all over for a subcontractor and every search seems to point me to learn more about how VPN technologies work. Has the Slashdot crowd had any experience in subcontracting out a VPN solution? Would anyone care to recommend a starting point for us to find/compare/contrast different VPN contractors?"

Comments

Don't do it, buy Netscreens

[Gothmolly]

I work for a Large US Bank, and our VPN is outsourced to AT&T, who subcontracts it to some (apparently) 5 man shop in Middle America somewhere. It sucks. It blows. I can't articulate how lame these people are. Problems? Sorry, we're a time zone away, so we're not here. Need something changed? Well, we'll TRY and get in remotely, but in case, can you have someone onsite reboot our box?
Buy a bunch of Netscreen firewalls. Get a permanent IP connection. Set up IPSEC tunnels; click, enter preshared key, click, click, done. Profit. It just works.