Chapter 6. Concentrator Product Information

Cisco offers a wide range of VPN products, including routers, PIX and ASA security appliances, VPN hardware appliances (concentrators), and software and hardware clients. With this wide range of choices, Cisco provides a VPN solution that can fit any network or market. VPN implementations supported by these products include IPsec, L2TP over IPsec, PPTP, and WebVPN.

A few years back Cisco introduced a concept called “Easy VPN.” Easy VPN’s premise was to make it easy to set up remote access connections. When I examine the client functionality of Cisco client products throughout this book, you’ll see that setting them up as clients is a very simple process—thus the term “easy” in Easy VPN. Easy VPN allows ...

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