Access Server or CloudConnexa®

Which secure networking solution is right for you?

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OpenVPN® Inc. offers two secure networking solutions for small, medium, and enterprise businesses. CloudConnexa® provides secure communication between an organization’s distributed workforce, IoT/IIoT devices, and the online services they rely on daily, with a secure virtualized network offered as a service. OpenVPN Access Server, our self-hosted solution, simplifies the rapid deployment of a secure remote access solution with a web-based graphic user interface and built-in OpenVPN Connect Client installer.

Both products are based on the market-proven OpenVPN protocol and trusted by some of the world’s most renowned brands for their unmatched flexibility, scalability, and ease of use.

Choose Cloud Connexa if you want to:

Share the responsibility of maintaining the virtual network with OpenVPN Inc. OpenVPN Inc. provides the cloud-based virtual networking platform, with built-in security functions, offered as a service from its various worldwide data centers and you are responsible for the connections to it.
Provide access to applications without exposing the network
Network together private networks with overlapping IP address subnets
Steer traffic destined to public domains inside the tunnel instead of, or in addition to, public IP addresses
Define access controls for applications configured as domain names
Connect once and get remote access to all the private networks you have connected to Cloud Connexa
Have multiple networks that provide access to the same public destinations including internet access
Use built-in value-add security services such as content filtering and Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention System (IDS/IPS)

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Choose Access Server if you want to:

Have complete control over the solution’s deployment, configuration, and management
Always have the tunnel terminate on networks that you own and control to ensure the data traffic stays in your domain of control
Deploy on an air gapped system
Authenticate using RADIUS or PAM
Use or develop your own plugins to extend the authentication system
Configure Access Control Lists (ACL) at the user-level
Collect syslogs
Pay hourly or annually while using Access Server on AWS
Share the subscribed number of connections among multiple Access Servers

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Cloud Connexa accounts include three free connections.
OpenVPN Access Server accounts include two free connections.
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Product Comparison Table

	OpenVPN Access Server	Cloud Connexa
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, 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.

Authentication

	OpenVPN Access Server	Cloud Connexa
Provisioned Username/Password
RADIUS
PAM
LDAP and Secure LDAP
SAML
MFA
Expandability using and developing plugins

Authorization

	OpenVPN Access Server	Cloud Connexa
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

	OpenVPN Access Server	Cloud Connexa
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

	OpenVPN Access Server	Cloud Connexa
DNS-based Content Filtering with domain name block list and allow list
Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDS/IPS) that protects transiting traffic
Device identity check	with plugin	using Dive feature

Billing

	OpenVPN Access Server	Cloud Connexa
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

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