Service Name:

Remote Access Service (VPN)

Description

The Remote Access Service (VPN) provides the Northeastern Faculty and Staff community with encryption, high availability, and remote connectivity to campus resources from the Internet.

Functionality/Benefits

Service allows users to connect a remote computer to campus resources in a secure fashion, retaining domain services for NUnet domain machines.

Service Level Options

N/A

Dependent Services

NUnet (Network), Internet Services, DNS Services, IP Address Services

Customers

Faculty and Staff

Users

Faculty and Staff

Hours of Availability

Service is available 24 x 7 x 365, except during planned maintenance and upgrades.

Support

Support is provided by Information Services during normal Service Desk hours of 7:00am - 12 midnight Monday - Saturday, except during holidays and intersession. To obtain assistance with this service, please contact the Service Desk at 617-373-4357.

Charge

Currently, there is no charge for this service.

Request for Service

This service can be accessed by connecting to http://remote.neu.edu. Valid Faculty or Staff NUnet credentials are required. To obtain assistance with this service, please contact the Service Desk at 617-373-4357.

Version, Date last updated

Last Updated: September 2009