SSL VPN Products for Small, Medium, and Large Organizations

One development already in progress is market segregation of SSL VPN appliances and software by the size of the organizations that each particular offering can support. Some SSL VPN appliances have performed better in large enterprise environments, others have excelled in smaller companies. As would be expected, the vendors that make such products have concentrated feature development and optimization around their customer base. As such, products that may have initially been similar in nature have evolved differently and grown apart over time.

In fact, some vendors that started with single 'one-size-fits-all' offerings have even released multiple appliances, with one model intended for sale to smaller firms and another version geared towards larger enterprises. Having a suite of offerings may be advantageous; firms with such a portfolio can conquer a larger segment of the remote-access market. At the same time, however, such an...