Companies must protect confidential information from eavesdropping or tampering during transmission. By implementing Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) enterprises can establish private, secure communications across a public network—usually the Internet—and extend their corporate networks to remote offices, mobile users, telecommuters, and extranet partners. Encryption technology ensures that messages traveling across a VPN cannot be intercepted or read by anyone other than the authorized recipient by using advanced mathematical algorithms to “scramble” messages and their attachments. The Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator Series is a best-of-breed, remote-access VPN solution. Incorporating the most advanced, high-availability capabilities with a unique purpose-built architecture, the Cisco VPN3000 concentrators allow corporations to build high-performance, scalable,.