How To Establish a New Connection to Ford Motor Company

For help in determining which type of connection is best suited for your business with Ford Motor Company, please see the table below. Click on the type of connection to view the steps necessary to establish that type of connection.

Ford Motor Company does not currently support Cisco Meraki based VPN tunnel endpoints.

For general inquiries, please open a Supplier Consultancy Ticket.

Type	Solutions	Transport	Audience	Prerequisites
Tunnels	Public Internet VPN	Public Internet Service Providers (ISP)	Server to Server connectivity Allows multiple users in a single connection	Supplier IPSec Firewall or Router (Cisco & Checkpoint are recommended) Public IP
	Dedicated ANX - - Declining	ANXTunnelZ Service offered by ANXeBusiness	Server to Server connectivity Allows multiple users in a single connection Guaranteed SLA	Requires contract with Private Network Provider
	Dedicated ENX - - Declining	Tunnel Service offered by T-Systems	Server to Server connectivity Allows multiple users in a single connection Guaranteed SLA	Requires contract with Private Network Provider
Software Based	ZScaler	Public Internet Service Providers (ISP) SaaS	Only Client to Application No Server-to-Server connection Single user solution	SaaS installation (ZScaler) CDSID Azure MFA profile
	ANX PPRO - - Declining	ANXTunnelZ Service offered by ANXeBusiness.	Only Client to Application No Server-to-Server connection Single user solution	Requires contract with Private Network Provider
VDI Based Solution	PIVPN + VDI	Public Internet	Service Providers (ISP) Suppliers requiring a Virtual Desktop solution to deliver its services like ODCs	See PIVPN + VDI Configuration
	ZScaler + VDI	Public Internet Service Providers (ISP) SaaS	Suppliers requiring a Virtual Desktop solution to deliver its services like ODCs	See ZScaler + VDI Configuration
In-Country Extranet (ICE)	ICE Connection	Dedicated Circuit	In Country Extranets should only be provided as exceptions when the other solutions cannot be used. This could be for Legal, Regulatory or physical restrictions which prevent one of the preferred Ford extranet solutions being used. Some examples are Supplier Parks, Government connections and Bank connections	Supplier Cisco Firewall or Router and dedicated circuit with Ford