

While there are implications to installing and maintaining an IPsec VPN client, I think the licensing battle goes to SSL VPN. "The con is that it can be a financial burden to maintain the licenses for the client software and a nightmare for tech support to install and configure the client software on all remote machines - especially if they can't be on site physically to configure the software themselves." In an article on, I found this statement regarding IPsec VPN:

Is it better than IPsec? In my opinion, it is, but you may be surprised why. What is An圜onnect? An圜onnect is the SSL VPN that Cisco is pushing these days. It seems that anytime VPN comes up these days with Cisco the conversation leans towards An圜onnect. This is a huge revenue stream for them and they have certainly capitalized on it. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that the new sweet spot for Cisco Systems is licensing.
