Case Study: Cisco’s Remote Access
Go to Cisco’s Website
and read, “How Cisco IT Provides Remote Access for Small Offices and
Teleworkers”, located at http://bit.ly/MkvlbA. According to the study, an IDC
forecast from December 2007, expected the global mobile worker population to
increase from 758.6 million in 2006 to more than 1.0 billion in 2011. Cisco had
a significant number of telecommuting employees and faced three challenges:
provide network access features that cannot be supported on a software VPN
client, automate and simplify router provisioning and updates, and enable a
scalable VPN solution to support up to 30,000 workers.
Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:
1.Evaluate the deployment cost savings realized by
Cisco, and determine if it was significant.
2.Analyze how the solution deployed by Cisco
improved:
a.employee productivity
b.satisfaction
c.retention
3.Discuss how Cisco was able to achieve VPN
scalability to support thousands of users.
4.When thousands of employees telecommute and work
in virtual offices, there are benefits to the environment. Discuss the
environmental impact of the Cisco telecommuting and virtual offices solution.
5.Use at least three (3) quality resources in this
assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality
resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting
requirements:
•Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font
(size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must
follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any
additional instructions.
•Include a cover page containing the title of the
assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the
date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required
assignment page length.
