Situation: We have salespeople/engineers holding temporary
seminars/training/demonstrations in hotel meeting rooms.
Requirements:
field people need a very plug-n-play, simple, reliable vpn back to corporate
offices to present videos/slides/demonstrations. The materials are not
accessible via the internet directly, they are in a contained environment at
corporate HQ locations but not necessarily on the corp network.the solution
should be able to provide wireless to attendees. In some cases, guest login
will be fine but in some cases the attendees will have registered and provided
login creds prior to the event, and these creds will need to be checked before
providing accessthe solution should have the option to split tunnel internet
traffic out, but in some cases they need all traffic tunneled and internet will
be via our corporate offices (NDA/legal, don't ask, it's just a requirement
provided)
Nice-to-have:
field person should be able to not only access the presentation materials (in
their contained network) but also the corporate network. Some early attempts
required a user-vpn connection by the field person over the S2S VPN, but it
made it clunky to switch back and forth. This isn't mandatory, but it would be
nice to provide one solution providing dual-level access: restricted to
attendees, less-restricted to field people
Tried this in the past with basic router/switch/wireless and captive portals
because we had some inventory available... it was workable but not quick or
easy. We really could use a simple solution that you just flip on, it calls
home, and works... or as close to that as possible.
Have been looking at Meraki and a couple other low-touch solutions and they may
do the trick, but we are hoping there are lower cost options that people have
used successfully? We don't mind dealing with some off brands and even some
custom coding (within reason) as long as the end result is a low-touch,
reliable solution.
Thanks in advance.
