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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:
Evaluate the deployment cost savings realized by Cisco, and
determine if it was significant.
Analyze how the solution deployed by Cisco improved:
employee productivity
satisfaction
retention
Discuss how Cisco was able to achieve VPN scalability to support
thousands of users.
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.