On-the-move workers in the utilities, field services, and oil and gas industries can easily carry it from place to place and have easy access to not only the Internet but also their companies' virtual private network (VPN) while they are away from the office.

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AmigoBot accesses the Internet through a password-protected private link-up using a VPN.

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And traffic between geographically separated company networks can be routed through a virtual private network (VPN) tunnel instead of being exposed to the open Internet.

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