Cisco 1701 Security Access Router

The Cisco 1701 Security Access Router offers a cost-effective, business-class security solution for small and medium-sized business and branch offices.

The Cisco 1701 Router features comprehensive security with virtual private network (VPN), firewall, and advanced routing functionality in an all-in-one device. The high-performance VPN and firewall functionality safeguard e-business data traveling site-to-site over the Internet and protect internal network resources from unauthorized access. The Cisco 1701 Security Access Router is the ideal security access solution for today's e-business needs.

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To participate fully in the digital economy, a growing number of businesses and branch offices are accessing the Internet and corporate networks using broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) and cable technologies. But these always-on Internet connections can make businesses more susceptible to intrusion and other Internet attacks. In order to help companies minimize these risks, the Cisco 1701 Security Access Router provides comprehensive security and advanced routing functionality when used in conjunction with a broadband modem.

The two Ethernet interfaces of the Cisco 1701 provide a LAN connection and a flexible, high-speed Internet connection. The router's dual Ethernet design enables an enterprise to deploy a standardized security access device across large numbers of geographically dispersed sites for use with any broadband connection.

The Cisco 1701 Security Access Router enables e-business application deployment by offering:

Comprehensive security—Business-class security over always-on, broadband Internet connections
High-performance VPN—Wire-speed VPN through hardware encryption
Advanced quality of service (QoS) Features—Bandwidth optimization and traffic prioritization
Remote manageability—Ease-of-installation, reliability, and manageability supported by CiscoWorks2000
All-in-one solution—Integration of multiple functions, including VPN, stateful inspection firewall, intrusion detection system (IDS), full-featured Cisco IOS® Software multiprotocol routing (IP, IPX, AppleTalk), and advanced QoS features

Part of the Cisco end-to-end security solution portfolio, the Cisco 1701 Security Access Router runs Cisco IOS Software, the accepted industry standard networking operating system for the Internet. This advanced software platform provides comprehensive security, advanced QoS, and routing functionality not found on simple broadband access devices.

For service providers, the Cisco 1701 Security Access Router provides an add-on security solution to basic broadband services. By delivering managed VPN services to small and medium-sized businesses and small branch office customers, service providers can help customers deploy e-business applications that leverage their current equipment investments.

The Cisco 1701 Security Access Router delivers a comprehensive feature set, including support for:

Secure Internet, intranet, and extranet access with VPN and firewall
Dual Ethernet for flexibility in using any high-speed broadband connection
Standards-based IEEE 802.1Q virtual LAN (VLAN)
Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE)
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) client and server
Network Address Translation (NAT)/Port Address Translation (PAT)
Tunneling with generic route encapsulation (GRE), Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP), and Layer 2 Forwarding (L2F)

Comprehensive Security

To support global networking and e-business today requires more than broadband WAN connectivity. Businesses need cost-effective, comprehensive security capabilities, including integrated VPN and firewall support. The Cisco 1701 Security Access Router delivers the latest VPN tunneling technology, including an integrated VPN hardware encryption module that accelerates IP Security (IPSec) 3DES performance up to full duplex T1/E1 speeds. Integrated firewall technology prevents unauthorized Internet users from accessing the enterprise LAN.

VPN

VPNs enable companies to securely connect their branch offices, mobile workers, and business partners over public networks, dramatically lowering costs compared to a private line. By taking advantage of the vast, shared communications infrastructure of the Internet or a shared service provider backbone, companies avoid the service charges of traditional private networks. Using today's technologies, VPNs deliver a wealth of benefits, enabling companies to:

Improve data security
Increase network performance and availability
Reduce recurring WAN costs
Simplify network operations

VPNs are making broadband networking affordable for enterprises with large numbers of branch offices that need to communicate securely with one another and to access resources at corporate headquarters or regional sites. Each site—a franchise dealership, a medical clinic, a sales branch, or any satellite office—simply connects its local Ethernet LAN to the Cisco 1701 Router and establishes a secure broadband Internet connection through a cable modem or DSL link.

The ability to offer managed VPN services to business customers, along with such value-added services as stateful inspection firewall and remote management, can help service providers tap new services and revenue streams while improving customer satisfaction. By deploying the Cisco 1701 Router to business customers, service providers can extend their service demarcation point beyond the broadband modem to encompass a business-class security router.

High Performance VPN

VPN performance is essential to ensuring that e-business applications deliver maximum performance. The Cisco 1701 delivers hardware-assisted VPN functionality allowing users to encrypt data using the strongest encryption available, 3DES at wire-speed (T1/E1). Using high- performance VPN encryption and tunneling technologies, the Cisco 1701 Security Access Router establishes a secure tunnel across the Internet to the corporate network. The virtual network connection lasts only as long as it is needed, so enterprises no longer pay for idle capacity on costly leased lines. Using the Cisco 1701, a VPN can scale to support up to 100 concurrent tunnels or sites in a fully meshed, fully secure global communications web.

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 1701 Security Access Router at the main office. With Cisco IOS routing support, the Cisco 1701 provides a multiprotocol remote access solution for IP, IPX, and AppleTalk traffic.

Extranet VPN

The Cisco 1701 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 1701 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.

Firewall

With an always-on broadband connection to the Internet, it is essential to protect the internal network against unwanted intrusion or malicious Internet attacks. The integrated stateful inspection firewall in the Cisco 1701 Security Access Router enables secure Internet access by internal users while defending the enterprise network against denial-of-service attacks and other forms of unauthorized access.

The Cisco 1701 integrates robust firewall functionality and intrusion detection system (IDS) for every perimeter of the network. It adds greater depth and flexibility to Cisco IOS security solutions such as authentication and encryption by including state-of-the-art security features such as stateful, application-based filtering, Context-Based Access Control (CBAC), denial of service protection, dynamic per-user authentication and authorization, defense against network attacks, Java blocking, and real-time alerts.

Remote Management and Ease of Installation

The Cisco 1701 supports a range of ease-of-installation and management tools:

CiscoWorks2000, the industry-leading Web-based network management suite, provides the ability to remotely configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot the Cisco 1701. CiscoWorks2000 provides increased visibility into network behavior and quickly identifies performance bottlenecks and long-term performance trends. It also provides sophisticated configuration tools to optimize bandwidth and utilization across expensive and critical WAN links in the network.
CiscoView is a Web-based tool that graphically provides real-time status of the Cisco 1701. It can drill down to display monitoring information on interfaces, provide dynamic status, statistics, and comprehensive configuration information.
Cisco Secure Policy Manager (CSPM) is a Windows NT based software tool that allows users to define, distribute, enforce, and audit network-wide security policies from a central location. CSPM streamlines the tasks of managing complicated network security elements, such as IPSec-based VPNs. CSPM can dramatically simplify Firewall and IPSec VPN deployments for enterprise customers, allowing administrators to visually define high-level security policies from one central tool.
For service providers, Cisco VPN Solutions Center (VPNSC) release 2.0 offers an extensive suite of service management solutions to enable service providers to effectively plan, provision, operate, and bill for VPN services. As service providers build VPNs that include WAN switches, routers, firewalls, VPN concentrators, and Cisco IOS software, they need to seamlessly manage these devices across the network infrastructure and provide service-level agreements (SLAs) to their customers. They also need to enable business customers to personalize their access to network services and applications. VPNSC now offers a cost-effective, carrier-class VPN service management for service providers to rapidly deploy outsourced VPN services that many businesses want today. The portfolio combines robust IPSec VPN services with all the other features of Cisco IOS software on platforms for every site, from the small office to corporate headquarters.

All-in-One Solution

The Cisco 1701 provides a complete security access solution in a single device, with high-speed encryption, stateful inspection firewall, intrusion detection system (IDS), VPN tunnel server, and Cisco IOS® multiprotocol routing. This integration reduces deployment and management time and expense because fewer devices and cables need to be installed and configured. An integrated product also saves space and increases reliability because fewer standalone devices are needed to build a solution. The Cisco 1701 simplifies ongoing support of small branch offices from a central site through remote configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting of all integrated functions in the security router.

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