Is VPN a long-term solution or the short-term

Question

Explain in brief is VPN a long-term solution or the short-term stop gap sort of thing?

Answer 1

The VPNs are long-term solutions. VPNs might become ubiquitous and apparent to the user; however they will not go away. As the problem VPNs address: privacy over the public network will not go away. The VPNs will exist from desktop to the server, and at IP packet level and also the application data level.