I am not a regular
subscriber to this list, but I am the Western Area Security Specialist for Cisco
Systems. I was forwarded an email that recently appeared stating that
Cisco was changing its support for remote access VPNs. This is not quite
the case.
In actually, Cisco
is expanding its remote access environment to include two new concentrators, the
CVPN 3000 series (formerly Altiga) and the CVPN 5000 series (formerly
Compatible.) We will continue to support remote access on the PIX & on
the Cisco Secure Integrated Software (formerly Firewall Feature
Set.)
The right solution
does depend on the application. All other things being equal, the CVPN
3000 series is our preferred remote access concentrator due to its incredible
scalability (100-5000 simultaneous 3DES users w/o chassis change), push-based
client configuration and ease of use. However, for the right client
(particularly small business) it might make economic sense to terminate a few
tunnels on a PIX firewall, or on a router.
Again, depending on
the customer, we are also leading with the PIX and/or router set for site to
site VPNs, but those are also supported by the CVPN 3000. We're just
giving you lots of options.
Finally, as to
clients, our roadmap is as follows:
The current 3000
client (formerly Altiga) will support remote access to PIX & routers as well
as the CVPN 3000 series by mid June. It will also be ported to Windows
2000 in that time frame. By end of CY00 we will have combined this client
with the Compatible client which will give us a SINGLE remote access client
working on Win9x, Win NT, Win2000, MacOS & Unix and supporting remote access
to the CVPN 3000, CVPN 5000, PIX and routers.
More complete
information on all of this is available on CCO at http://www.cisco.com/go/security.
I'm happy to discuss
this further, but please send me direct email as I'm not monitoring this
list.
Alex
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Alex
Thurber
Western Area Specialist
Security & Management
Northwest
Operations District
Cisco Systems, Inc.
4550 SW Kruse Way, Suite 365
Lake Oswego, OR
97035
(503) 699-4640
(503) 699-4666 (fax)
Security:
http://www.cisco.com/go/security
Management:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/734/
