SnapGear has published a case study about what it claims represents “the first known use of a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to transmit inspection test data from a nuclear power plant” over the Internet.

During regularly scheduled plant outages, eddy current test data from steam generators at the Pt. Lepreau Nuclear Facility in New Brunswick, Canada was transmitted via the Internet to Snoqualmie, WA, where it was remotely analyzed. SnapGear's embedded Linux based VPN appliances facilitated the secure transmission of data over the Internet.

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