Corporation model

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Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

Corporation model

The following hypothetical situation illustrates how Connection Point Services (CPS) can help a corporation offer a cost-effective means of telecommuting.

Lucerne Publishing is a multinational company that spends a significant amount of money on maintaining toll-free numbers and long-distance dial-up fees so its employees can telecommute. The toll-free numbers are used by home-office employees who live outside the calling area and by employees on business trips. Home-office employees living inside the calling area use a local access number.

The company administrators decide to use CPS. They realize that by merging access numbers in their existing phone book with the access numbers of a large ISP they can save money on long distance charges while maintaining a high level of security.

Employees making phone calls from within the calling area of Lucerne Publishing connect to the company remote-access server. Employees residing or traveling outside the calling area of the corporation are able to call local ISP phone numbers, thereby connecting to the ISP remote-access server and avoiding long distance charges previously incurred by the maintenance of the toll-free numbers.

Lucerne Publishing uses the Connection Manager Administration Kit and Connection Manager to automatically differentiate between its local access numbers and the Points of Presence (POPs) provided by the ISP outside the local calling area. As a result, the difference between local access to the corporate private network and the extended remote access over the Internet using a secure connection is transparent to their employees. Connection Manager connects to the corporate private network when an employee uses a local access number and establishes a secure connection to the corporate private network when an employee uses an ISP phone number.

Lucerne Publishing and the ISP each maintain Phone Book Service (PBS) servers for their respective phone books. Each PBS server automatically downloads the most current list of local access phone numbers every time the employee connects to Lucerne Publishing.