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CloudConnexa®

Cloud-delivered secure networking and ZTNA service
  • Cloud-delivered service from worldwide locations

  • Built-in web filtering and IDS/IPS

  • Easy routing setup using application names

  • Instant Wide-area Private Cloud (WPC)

  • Vertically-integrated security

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No credit card needed. Starts with free plan.

Access Server

Self-hosted VPN solution
  • VPN server that is hosted by you

  • Identity-based granular access control

  • Easy to scale to meet needs of growing business

  • Share connections across multiple installations

  • Widespread availability on cloud marketplaces

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Do regulatory or company policies compel you to run your own servers instead of using a service?

CloudConnexa is our recommended solution for customers who do not currently own servers

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Access Server is our recommended solution for customers who currently own servers

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Do you want to use a secure networking service, instead of deploying your own VPN servers?

CloudConnexa is our recommended solution for customers who do not want to deploy their own servers

Get Started with CloudConnexa

Access Server is our recommended solution for customers who want to deploy their own VPN servers

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Do you want to authenticate using RADIUS, PAM or develop your own custom authentication?

CloudConnexa is our recommended solution for customers who do not require such custom authentication methods

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Access Server is our recommended solution for customers who want to authenticate using RADIUS, PAM, or develop their own custom authentication

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Product Comparison Data

Billing

Charged monthly or annually by number of simultaneous connections

Usage based pricing from AWS

Sharing the number of connections associated with a subscription among multiple deployments

A subscription is associated with each Cloud Connexa Account.

Freemium model

2 connections free prior to purchase 3 connections free prior to purchase

Authentication

Provisioned Username/Password

RADIUS

PAM

LDAP and Secure LDAP

SAML

MFA

Expandability using and developing plugins

Authorization

Point and click Configuration of access control

Access control to applications defined using domain names

Access controls that apply to specific users

Controls for User Groups

Logging

Connection events displayed on the portal

Streaming connection events to remote syslog server

Emailed as CSV files from the portal.

Logs for additional security events

Dashboards, drill-downs for monitored and blocked events reported by content filtering and IDS/IPS.

Value and Security Features

DNS-based Content Filtering with domain name block list and allow list

Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDS/IPS) that protects transiting traffic

General

Self-hosted software solution with server software available on many IaaS Marketplaces, and from our website for Linux distributions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux 2, and Debian as well as virtual appliances for VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V

Cloud-based virtual networking platform offering with worldwide Points of Presence for connecting devices, applications, and networks

Can be deployed on air gapped systems

Responsibility for monitoring, managing, and deploying servers for redundancy, performance, and scale

Customer OpenVPN Inc.

Make a Network accessible

By deploying one or more Access Servers on the network. By deploying one or more instances of Connector software, which makes an outbound connection to an Cloud Connexa Point of Presence.

Make an Application accessible without connecting the network

By running the Connector software on the Application server, which makes an outbound connection to an Cloud Connexa Point of Presence.

Connect to applications on a network without exposing IP subnet routes

By providing application domain names as routes for the connected network hosting the application servers.

Connect networks with overlapping IP address subnets

Uniquely identify each network with overlapping IP addresses with a name instead of IP subnets.

Split-tunnel OFF (full tunnel redirection)

All internet traffic is tunneled to the connected Access Server. All internet traffic is tunneled and routed to one or more connected Networks acting as Internet Gateways.

Split-tunnel ON

All private traffic and traffic to configured public IP addresses is tunneled to the connected Access Server. Any other traffic uses the local internet connection. All private traffic and traffic to configured public IP addresses and public domain names is tunneled and routed to one or more connected Networks. Any other traffic uses the local internet connection.

Restricted Internet

All private traffic and traffic to configured public IP addresses and public domain names is tunneled and routed to one or more connected Networks. Any other traffic is blocked.

For remote access to a Network

Clients connect to the Access Server that is deployed on the network or provides connectivity to a network using a site-to-site configuration. Clients connect to any one of the Cloud Connexa Points of Presence.

Provides site-to-site connection

By deploying a gateway client instance on a site that connects to the Access Server deployed on the other site. By deploying one or more instances of Connector software, which makes an outbound connection to an Cloud Connexa Point of Presence, on the site. All sites connected to Cloud Connexa can be provided access to each other.

Requires pinholes in the firewall to allow inbound connections to the server on your network

Uses OpenVPN protocol

Supports OpenVPN Data Channel Offload (DCO)

OpenVPN Connect clients are available for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows. OpenVPN open-source client included in all major Linux distributions and DD-WRT or related routers

Clients bundled with connection profiles for quick install and connectivity

Static tunnel private IP address

Can be dynamic or static based on configuration. All assigned tunnel IP addresses are always persistent.

Billing

Charged monthly or annually by number of simultaneous connections

Usage based pricing from AWS

Sharing the number of connections associated with a subscription among multiple deployments

Cloud Connexa A subscription is associated with each Cloud Connexa Account.

Freemium model

OpenVPN Access Server 2 connections free prior to purchase
Cloud Connexa 3 connections free prior to purchase

Authorization

Point and click Configuration of access control

Access control to applications defined using domain names

Access controls that apply to specific users

Cloud Connexa Controls for User Groups

Logging

Connection events displayed on the portal

Streaming connection events to remote syslog server

Cloud Connexa Emailed as CSV files from the portal.

Logs for additional security events

Cloud Connexa Dashboards, drill-downs for monitored and blocked events reported by content filtering and IDS/IPS.

Value and Security Features

DNS-based Content Filtering with domain name block list and allow list

Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDS/IPS) that protects transiting traffic

General

Self-hosted software solution with server software available on many IaaS Marketplaces, and from our website for Linux distributions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux 2, and Debian as well as virtual appliances for VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V

Cloud-based virtual networking platform offering with worldwide Points of Presence for connecting devices, applications, and networks

Can be deployed on air gapped systems

Responsibility for monitoring, managing, and deploying servers for redundancy, performance, and scale

Cloud Connexa OpenVPN Inc.

Make a Network accessible

OpenVPN Access Server By deploying one or more Access Servers on the network.
Cloud Connexa By deploying one or more instances of Connector software, which makes an outbound connection to an Cloud Connexa Point of Presence.

Make an Application accessible without connecting the network

Cloud Connexa By running the Connector software on the Application server, which makes an outbound connection to an Cloud Connexa Point of Presence.

Connect to applications on a network without exposing IP subnet routes

Cloud Connexa By providing application domain names as routes for the connected network hosting the application servers.

Connect networks with overlapping IP address subnets

Cloud Connexa Uniquely identify each network with overlapping IP addresses with a name instead of IP subnets.

Split-tunnel OFF (full tunnel redirection)

OpenVPN Access Server All internet traffic is tunneled to the connected Access Server.
Cloud Connexa All internet traffic is tunneled and routed to one or more connected Networks acting as Internet Gateways.

Split-tunnel ON

OpenVPN Access Server All private traffic and traffic to configured public IP addresses is tunneled to the connected Access Server. Any other traffic uses the local internet connection.
Cloud Connexa All private traffic and traffic to configured public IP addresses and public domain names is tunneled and routed to one or more connected Networks. Any other traffic uses the local internet connection.

Restricted Internet

Cloud Connexa All private traffic and traffic to configured public IP addresses and public domain names is tunneled and routed to one or more connected Networks. Any other traffic is blocked.

For remote access to a Network

OpenVPN Access Server Clients connect to the Access Server that is deployed on the network or provides connectivity to a network using a site-to-site configuration.
Cloud Connexa Clients connect to any one of the Cloud Connexa Points of Presence.

Provides site-to-site connection

OpenVPN Access Server By deploying a gateway client instance on a site that connects to the Access Server deployed on the other site.
Cloud Connexa By deploying one or more instances of Connector software, which makes an outbound connection to an Cloud Connexa Point of Presence, on the site. All sites connected to Cloud Connexa can be provided access to each other.

Requires pinholes in the firewall to allow inbound connections to the server on your network

Uses OpenVPN protocol

Supports OpenVPN Data Channel Offload (DCO)

OpenVPN Connect clients are available for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows. OpenVPN open-source client included in all major Linux distributions and DD-WRT or related routers

Clients bundled with connection profiles for quick install and connectivity

Static tunnel private IP address

OpenVPN Access Server Can be dynamic or static based on configuration.
Cloud Connexa All assigned tunnel IP addresses are always persistent.

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