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configure multiple remote devices. While customers wishing to deploy and manage site-to-site VPN would benefit
from Cisco Easy VPN Remote because of its simplification of VPN deployment and management, managed VPN
service providers and enterprises who must deploy and manage numerous remote sites and branch offices with IOS
routers for VPN will realize the greatest benefit.
The Cisco 1700 Series routers also support the Cisco Easy VPN Server feature that allows a Cisco 1700 router to act
as a VPN head-end device. In site-to-site VPN environments, the Cisco 1700 router can terminate VPN tunnels
initiated by the remote office routers using the Cisco Easy VPN Remote. Security policies can be pushed down to the
remote office routers from the Cisco 1700 router. In addition to terminating site-to-site VPNs, a Cisco 1700 router
running the Cisco Easy VPN Server feature can terminate remote access VPNs initiated by mobile and remote
workers running Cisco VPN client software on PCs. This flexibility makes it possible for mobile and remote workers,
such as sales people on the road, to access company intranet where critical data and applications exist.
Remote Access VPN
In an age of increasing mobility, workers on the move need secure, cost-effective access to corporate e-mail,
databases, and network resources. Remote access VPNs meet this need by enabling mobile users to establish a secure
tunnel to the corporate network from virtually any location—a home office, hotel room, or conference site—using
the Internet as the transport medium.
Mobile users simply dial in from their PC or laptop computer to an Internet service provider's local point of presence
(POP). Their data is encapsulated inside a second protocol such as IPSec or L2TP and transported across the Internet
to the Cisco 1710 Security Access Router at the main office. With Cisco IOS routing support, the Cisco 1710 provides
a multiprotocol remote access solution for IP, IPX, and AppleTalk traffic.
Extranet VPN
The Cisco 1710 Security Access Router also enables small and medium-sized businesses to evolve their organization
into e-businesses by participating in their enterprise customers' VPN-based extranets. These larger enterprises are
increasingly using extranets to provide their suppliers and partners with secure, real-time access to selected enterprise
data to enable collaboration, maximize supply chain efficiency, improve sales force effectiveness, or improve
e-business operations.
By deploying a Cisco 1710 router, small and medium-sized businesses position themselves to participate in these
trusted relationships over a secure VPN tunnel. Secure extranet access up-to-the-minute inventory information,
high-level support services, or database resources can give a supplier a competitive advantage over competitors who
do not have advanced VPN capability.
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