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The last option that I want to talk about for deploying Always On VPN

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infrastructure in Azure is the use of a virtual appliance.

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A virtual appliance, or NVA, or network virtual appliance, is

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available from a wide variety of security vendors.

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And so again, as you'd heard me state at the beginning of this course,

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Always On VPN is infrastructure independent.

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It can work with non‑Microsoft platforms on the back end.

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So, if you chose, you could always deploy solutions from your favorite vendor,

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like Palo Alto, Cisco, Fortinet, Check Point.

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There's a whole host of of appliance vendors that make virtual

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appliances that are available in the Azure Marketplace that can be

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deployed as software solutions in Azure, and they may serve quite well

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as the back‑end platform for Always On VPN.

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I'd encourage you to go back to the earlier lessons where we talked about

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the requirements for third‑party VPN infrastructure, but at the end of

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the day, they can be viable options for you.

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I think the advantage to some of these solutions are that they are dedicated,

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you know,

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purpose‑built security platforms. The drawbacks, of course, is that

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they're a little more difficult to implement and support.

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But again,

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this could be a viable alternative for administrators looking to

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integrate Always On VPN using their existing platform of choice

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or security platform of choice.

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These are all excellent options, and there's a whole host of others.

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You're by no means limited to any of these.

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Just understand that, you know,

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unfortunately, this course is really focusing on deploying

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Always On VPN using the Microsoft stack, so we're looking at

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all of the Microsoft solutions.

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Unfortunately,

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time just prevents us from going into these third‑party solutions with any sort of depth.