Cisco Announces Comprehensive Enterprise VPN Strategy; Suite of VPN Solutions.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 1999-- Cisco's Five-Point, Multi-Phase Enterprise 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. Solution Set Cost-Effectively Extends Classic WAN Network (E-VPN) strategy and suite of new VPN solutions. Spanning five key components required to successfully deploy a VPN -- scalable platforms, security, servics, including IPSec acceleration on the Cisco 7500 and 7200 high-end router series, as well as firewall feature set extensions and VPN service level agreement (SLA (1) (StereoLithography Apparatus) See 3D printing. (2) (Service Level Agreement) A contract between the provider and the user that specifies the level of service expected during its term. ) monitoring services. Also announced are enhancements to Ciscotools, including Security Manager 1.0, Access Control List (ACL See access control list. 1. ACL - Access Control List. 2. ACL - Association for Computational Linguistics. 3. ACL - A Coroutine Language. A Pascal-based implementation of coroutines. ["Coroutines", C.D. ) Manager 1.0 and Internetwork Performance Moninvestments and simplified wide area network (WAN) operations over time. Most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , VPNs are fundamental for enterprises to achieve global reach and ubiquitous access -- enabling new business applications 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. . "Cisco's family of VPN-enabled routers allows enterprises to complement their classic WAN networks with a smooth migration to the extended connectivity enabled by virtual private networking," noted Richard Palmer
"Our entire line of router platforms are easily VPN-enabled with Cisco IOS Cisco IOS (originally Internetwork Operating System) is the software used on the vast majority of Cisco Systems routers and all current Cisco network switches. IOS is a package of routing, switching, internetworking and telecommunications functions tightly integrated with a software enhancements -- making Cisco's installed base of nearly 10 million ports VPN-ready today. By coupling the extensive VPN services provided by Cisco IOS software with VPN-optimized router platforms, enterprises can implement secure, scalable and manageable VPNs immediately," said Palmer. "We dramatically improved our network with just a few simple software upgrades to existing Cisco routers -- essentially augmenting our internal infrastructure to accommodate VPN capabilities," said Berkeley Keck, director of IT for the United Network for Organ Sharing United Network for Organ Sharing See UNOS. (UNOS UNOS United Network for Organ Sharing Transplant surgery A database dedicated to optimizing the use of transplantable organs; according to UNOS statistics–1995, ± 20,000 major organs and tissues are transplanted/yr; since successful survival of ). "Throughout this process, Cisco's service and support group has proven itself on numerous occasions -- they promised reliability that we could count on, and it's been there. As a result, we are extending our VPN to tap the Internet for universal reach to hundreds of transplant centers, organ procurement organizations, doctors and patients -- providing access to data which puts the term 'mission critical' in true perspective. Cisco's solutions meet all our needs for this endeavor-reliability, security and a low-cost infrastructure migration," said Keck. Cisco's E-VPN Strategy Cisco's comprehensive five-point, multi-phase E-VPN strategy and solution set integrates full-service, VPN-optimized routers with enhanced security capabilities and advanced services. As a result, customers can incrementally add VPN functionality to their existing WAN infrastructures -- accommodating the security, scalability and management requirements associated with remote access, intranet and extranet VPNs. Phase I of the solution set includes Cisco's entire line of classic WAN products, software and services. Today's launch, phase II, unveils new solutions tailored specifically for E-VPNs. Delivered over the next two years, phases III and IV will feature accelerated VPN and enhanced multiservice VPN capabilities. Each phase within Cisco's strategy is backed by full pre- and post-sales service and extended by key technology and support partnerships. Cisco is currently working with Microsoft for synergy between directory-enabled components, as well as VeriSign and Entrust for IPSec compatibility. Scalable VPN Platforms Cisco's portfolio of VPN-optimized platforms integrates VPN functionality, high-speed encryption, security and bandwidth management with WAN connectivity to reduce VPN network complexity and costs. The product family includes the Cisco 7500, 7200 VXR VXR Vauxhall Racing and 7200 high-end routers f price-performance points, these systems are edeo communications at narrowband and broadband nterface Processor (VIP) series line cards. d by the Cisco 3600, 2600 and 1700 series. Integrating DES and 3DES IPSec encryption and IPPCP IPPCP Internet Protocol Payload Compression Protocol compression services with industry-standard IPPCP protocols, the ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. card ls and encryption, packet authentication, firewve VPN security. By integrating many of these features within Cisco IOS software, users can transparently secure the network infrastructure with a simple software upgradeic Wide Area Network and Simplifying Operationsandwidth and control over differentiated services and applications. Augmenting the QoS mechanism employed within a service provider's VPN architecture, Cisco enables enterprise businesses to enforce priorities and bandwidth allocation among various applications and users. With Cisco IOS software release 12.0, Cisco has extended its rich set of QoS features and mechanisms to support VPN deployments on a wide range of Cisco router platforms, including advanced IP QoS for mid-range and remote router families. To validate and monitor service providers' adherence to SLAs, Cisco is embedding a service level monitoring Response Time Reporter (RTR RTR Ready To Run RTR Rundfunk & Telekom Regulierungs Gmbh RTR Rotor RTR Radio e Televisiun Rumantscha (Romansh Radio and Television, Switzerland) RTR Response Time Reporter RTR Ready To Race RTR Ready to Roll ) to allow measurement of round-trip latencies through a virtual private network. VPN-Optimized Appliances A key complement to Cisco's router-based VPN capabilities, specialized appliances offer firewall and security auditing capabilities -- allowing enterprises to ensure both the reliability and security their VPN is providing. Cisco's VPN-enabled appliances include PIX Firewalls(TM), the NetRanger intrusion detection system This article is about the computing term. For other uses, see Burglar alarm. An intrusion detection system (IDS) generally detects unwanted manipulations of computer systems, mainly through the Internet. and NetSonar security scanner. (See related press release, "Cisco Delivers New Levels of Management and Security Enhancing the Classic Wide Area Network and Simplifying Operations of VPNs," dated Jan. 18, 1999.) VPN Management: Service Management and Policy Control VPNs require cohesive, policy-based management capabilities to bridge both existing management systems and the unique VPN infrastructure. Cisco's VPN management portfolio addresses this challenge by integrating key capabilities to ensure a centralized and smooth integration of the private WAN and VPN. Cisco's new Security Manager 1.0 policy management software extends Cisco's end-to-end security solution, while the CiscoWorks2000 family adds WAN monitoring extensions and reduced access list management complexity with the delivery of IPM (1) (Impressions Per Minute) Generally refers to document scanners that scan both sides of the page at the same time. Thus, a scanner that scans at 100 ppm (pages per minute) can provide 200 ipm. See ppm and document scanner. and ACL Manager software releases. (See related press release, "Cisco Delivers New Levels of Management and Security Enhancing the Classic Wide Area Network and Simplifying Operations of VPNs," dated Jan. 18, 1999.) Availability IP QoS, 3DES and RTR features are all incorporated within Cisco IOS software version 12.0, and are available immediately. Software IPSec acceleration for the Cisco 7500 is available in a subsequent release of Cisco IOS 12.0, followed by hardware acceleration for the Cisco 7200 and 7500 systems beginning in the first half of 1999. About Cisco Systems Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ) is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. News and information are available at http://www.cisco.com. Note to Editors: NetSonar, NetRanger and Pix Firewall are trademarks and Cisco, Cisco IOS, Cisco Systems, and the Cisco Systems logo are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. |
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