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VPN Technologies is a privately held company based in the Pleasanton, California, integrating a suite of leading-edge networking and software technologies. VPN Technologies has designed and deployed a virtual network software that provides secure, reliable, and scalable communication services, not only fulfilling the requirements of the traditional virtual private network (VPN) market, but also addressing the demands of real-time media exchange and distribution applications. Open VPN, our award-winning open source VPN product, has established itself as a de-facto standard in the open source networking space, with over 2.5 million downloads since inception. OpenVPN Technologies is the provider of next-generation secure and scalable communication services, implementing its business plan through strategic partnerships with key application software providers and marketing its product to SMB market place through its OpenVPN web site that is experiencing more than 200,000 new SMB users, prospects, and customers per month.
The company was co-founded by Francis Dinha and James Yonan. Francis Dinha is an accomplished executive with domestic and international experience in operations, P&L management, strategic product positioning, technology development, and business planning with both startup and growth organizations. James Yonan is the author of the OpenVPN software package, and has since established OpenVPN as an award-winning offering in the Open Source security space.
A VPN connection allows a computer to establish a virtual and private connection to a network over the Internet. The connection is virtual because when the computer establishes a VPN connection over the Internet, the computer making the VPN connection acts like a node that’s directly connected to the network, as if it had an Ethernet cable connected to that network. The user can access all the same resources he could connect to as if he were directly connected to the network. However, in the case of the VPN client connection to a VPN server, the connection is a virtual one because there is no actual Ethernet connection to the destination network. The connection is private because the contents of the datastream moving inside the VPN connection are encrypted so that no one over the Internet is able to intercept and read the contents of the communications moving over the VPN link. Windows Servers and clients have supported VPN connections since the days of Windows NT and Windows 95. While Windows clients and servers have supported VPN connections for over a decade, the type of VPN support has evolved over time. Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 now support three types of VPN connections.