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Cisco Uses WAN VPNs to Provide Cost-Effective Remote Site and Disaster Recovery Connectivity

Overview The challenge for Cisco IT was to find a cost-effective alternative to dedicated circuits for connectivity to smaller, remote Cisco locations, Cisco partner locations, and for disaster recovery connectivity between global regions. Cisco has met this challenge by deploying WAN VPNs. This 15 page PDF describes the benefits Cisco derived from deploying WAN VPNs including:

Cost-effective, reliable connectivity to remote Cisco sites
Economical connectivity as a final disaster recovery mechanism between major Cisco sites
Viable alternative to dedicated private-line service leveraging common infrastructure between Cisco and its partners

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Cisco Systems	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2004
Format	Case Studies
Topics	VPNs, Wide Area Networks (WAN), Network Disaster Recovery

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