CISCO ENHANCES VPN SOLUTIONS.Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. has announced the availability of new versions of the Cisco VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. Client software, the Cisco VPN 3002 Hardware Client, and new embedded hardware-based VPN acceleration in the Cisco PIX History Cisco PIX (Private Internet EXchange) is a firewall originally conceived in March 1994 by John Mayes of Redwood City, California and coded by Brantley Coiles of Athens, Georgia. 525 and 535 Firewall family. These enhancements offer customers added end-point security support in remote access VPN deployments, and an increase in Cisco's high-end firewall VPN performance. This announcement extends Cisco's technical and market innovation in the VPN and security market and further enhances SAFE, Cisco's security blueprint for Cisco AVVID AVVID Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data (Cisco) AVVID Architecture for Voice Video and Integrated Data -- the Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data. Gartner/Dataquest's recently published marketshare report, "Firewall Equipment: Worldwide, First Half 2001," ranked Cisco No. 1 in the firewall equipment market by revenue in 2000 confirming Cisco's leadership position. The new Cisco VPN Client version 3.5 software and version 3.5 of the Cisco VPN 3002 Hardware Client continue to address customer remote access VPN requirements with a variety of new capabilities. The Cisco VPN Client software includes new integrated personal firewall functionality from Zone Labs, a member of the Cisco AVVID Partner Program, giving customers embedded end-point security support in remote access VPN environments. Users initiating a VPN connection can now be required to have the firewall enabled before a connection is established at the head-end device, providing critical infrastructure protection Department of Defense (DOD) program to identify and protect assets critical to the Defense Transportation System. Loss of a critical asset would result in failure to support the mission of a combatant commander. for networks that support remote access VPNs. New support for smartcards and NT password expiration provide added remote access VPN security functionality, and new MAC OS X and Solaris client support in the unified client architecture expand customer options for VPN connectivity. Version 3.5 of the Cisco 3002 Hardware Client now allows for individual user authentication See authentication. , giving customers the option to require users behind a 3002 to authenticate (1) To verify (guarantee) the identity of a person or company. To ensure that the individual or organization is really who it says it is. See authentication and digital certificate. (2) To verify (guarantee) that data has not been altered. themselves, complementing the new end-point security capabilities available in the client software. The addition of new IPSec/TCP support extends the 3002 capabilities in Extranet environments, enabling users to connect to their "home" corporate network through a foreign firewall or NAT (Network Address Translation) An IETF standard that allows an organization to present itself to the Internet with far fewer IP addresses than there are nodes on its internal network. device. "As a leading outsourced IT services provider for companies with widely distributed Adj. 1. widely distributed - growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" cosmopolitan bionomics, environmental science, ecology - the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms workforces, secure remote connectivity is critical to our customer support capabilities," said Darius Mikenas, manager of Network Engineering and Operations at Centerbeam, Inc. "The enhancements to the Cisco VPN Client software and Cisco VPN 3002 Hardware Client provide extensive, integrated end-point security capabilities critical to remote access VPN deployments." Cisco also announced recently extensions to the VPN capabilities in select models of its high-performance PIX 525 and 535 Firewalls. With the addition of integrated hardware-based VPN acceleration, the PIX 525 and 535 firewalls now offer high-performance VPN functionality integrated with industry-leading perimeter security for today's business-critical VPN and security deployments. The growing demand for VPN connectivity reveals significant business benefits. A recently Cisco-sponsored Gartner Consulting VPN Research study found the average return on a company's VPN investment to be approximately 54%, with one of the key implementation drivers and benefits realized being secure remote access. The new enhancements to Cisco's VPN solutions, and the SAFE blueprint support these findings enabling businesses to securely and successfully take advantage of e-Business and compete in the Internet economy The Internet Economy refers to conducting business through markets whose infrastructure is based on the Internet and World-Wide Web. An Internet economy differs from a traditional economy in a number of ways, including: communication, market segmentation, distribution costs, and price. . The Cisco VPN Client version 3.5 software is available today for all compliant Cisco Remote Access VPN devices, including the Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator and Cisco VPN 3002 Hardware Client for no additional charge. The Cisco PIX 525 is available today with embedded VPN acceleration for $22,000 USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. and Cisco PIX 535 with embedded VPN acceleration is available today for $59,000 USD. |
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