Cisco is aiming its new bundle of gear and services at companies that want to set their employees up to work from home. With fewer workers on the road on their daily commutes Cisco is doing its bit to help 
save the planet - and to sell new gear at the same time. Called Cisco Virtual Office (CVO), the package includes IP phones and multiservice routers to be placed in home offices or branch offices and linked to corporate headquarters. And of course, Cisco doesn't just sell technology to let people work from home - it also sells technology for their recreational time too. But of course workers would never slack off and play with Cisco technologies during work hours :) According to Tim Greene writing in Network World, CVO consists of existing Cisco gear: 800 Series ISR routers, 7900 Series phones, 7200 Series VPN aggregation router, Cisco Security Manager, Cisco Secure ACS RADIUS server and a configuration engine. The components are sold at standard prices, but include some software designed just for CVO. This software is aimed at making the user experience similar to that in a LAN-connected environment.
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Wow - and only the third vendor to do it...
SanDisk has an offer, so does Juniper, and most recently, Nortel. The only difference seems to be that Cisco is taking a less secure, more overly used virtual-VPN approach instead of any true hard/soft security to protect the connection, the user, and the corporate information.
Stay informed as to what's available, don't focus only on what you know.
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