If you have a Synology Wi-Fi router, you can create an SSTP VPN environment for free!
The time limit is September 30, 2021 PDT (US Pacific Standard Time Daylight Time) next year, or 15:59 on October 1, 2021 in Japan Standard Time.
According to the schedule announced in the spring of this year, a few days after the publication of this article, the free provision period, which was scheduled to end on October 1, 2020, will be extended by a full year.
Synology's RT2600ac and MR2200ac provide a VPN server app called "VPN Plus Server", but the client license usually costs $9.99 per license, and the RT2600ac has a limit of 20, and the MR2200ac has a limit of 10. You can get it for free. The same goes for the paid license for Site to Site VPN, which also costs $9.99.
Of course, these are not subscription licenses, but one-time purchase licenses, so once you purchase them, you can use them forever.
A VPN access license for the VPN Plus client for Synology routers can be obtained free of charge until October 1, 2021 (15:59) Japan time. The standard comes with a client for 1 simultaneous connection, but with this, the RT2600ac can have up to 20 simultaneous connections
The campaign started in April as a special offer in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the fact that it has been extended until 2021 is good news for users who are planning to introduce a VPN for telework. deaf.
Regarding the company's router, I posted earlier in this series, "The wireless LAN router "RT2600ac" that is fully open like Synology is not normal!" ], but as far as I know, it is one of the most maniac products in the industry (in a good sense of course) as a consumer product, and functions such as file synchronization, IPS / IDS, web filters, user management, etc. Very well made.
Among them, the VPN server function supports not only general PPTP, L2TP/IPsec, and OpenVPN on routers, but also Synology SSL VPN, Web VPN, and remote desktop using SSTP. There are plenty of functions such as support for Site to Site VPN for
In the case of the RT2600ac, the above VPN using SSTP supports up to 20 simultaneous connections (3 simultaneous remote desktops). If you get a limited-time free license up to the upper limit, you should be able to build a VPN environment that allows most employees to use office resources from the outside in a small office.
In general, if the main body price and maintenance cost of a corporate VPN device are high, the client license is also not cheap, so the total cost may increase. However, if it is this opportunity, it will only cost around 24,400 yen (tax included), which is the actual selling price of the router itself.
By all means, I want to take advantage of this opportunity.