Connectivity Options (Internet & VPN)

A Private APN may have VPN Tunnels, Internet Access, or both. Internet access can be wide-open or whitelisted by IP.

VPN Tunnels

You may add VPN tunnels to your Private APN. The advantages are:

• Better security - all device traffic is sent through an encrypted VPN tunnel to your servers/applications.

• More flexibility in application design and operations - you can communicate with your devices directly via their IP address (with static or dynamic assignment).

Internet IP Whitelisting

Another advantage of using a Private APN instead of the Shared APN is that you can limit the internet access that your IoT devices should have. This adds another level of security and prevents rogue data usage to internet services which are not required for your application.

Whitelisting can only be done via IP (not hostname, domain name or URL).