The short description is that I am consolidating multiple vendors in our facility (each with their own independent dsl) into a single rack with a single higher speed Internet link.
The features I am working on are
1) a way to connect the single Internet inbound and separate it out with switch ports (vlans maybe) and give each vendor a unique and isolated network drop still.
2) a way to provide the vendors the ability to vpn or ssl-vpn into their equipment with a managed solution on our end. Single signon, easily enabled/disabled per account on request (audit requirement is never always on), straight forward report to show who was connected on which date/time/length. Additionally restrict the signon to access specific host(s).
It would certainly be nice if a single vendor could provide both but I seem unable to find one.
I believe #1 is a relatively straight forward switch solution but it would be nice if it had firewall features with 4-10 unique out ports to connect each vendor to and assign traffic rules.
I suspect that #2 is going to require a software solution like OpenVPN but I'd much prefer a hardware appliance that can create the SSL-VPN connections between 1-10 logins and their respective server(s) that we have in our facility.
We have multiple vendors that use 2-10u of rack space of their own equipment to manage/maintain equipment in our facility. Today, each has a DSL and can do what they want and when they want. This is not scalable and is very much not managed, ha. They also have no connections to any of out internal networks so it has worked to now.
Any clues on vendors that might offer a good switching/vpn solution to essentially do 'reverse' web hosting? That's what I'm calling it anyway.