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Cisco IOS Software: IP Services

Todays networks must provide a exible, scalable, and reliable network base from which new services and solutions can be deployed across the network with ease. Some of the issues that network managers face include cost containment, interoperability, rapid deployment, and quick return on investment.

The SolutionCisco IOS Software IP Services

The migration to IP as the mechanism for interconnecting computers, networks, and solutions requires a strong foundation that delivers a breadth of features and provides the exibility to enable the foundation to be adapted to todays network requirements and evolve as the network grows to meet future demands. Cisco IOS software contains a wide array of critical network services designed for exibility, scalability, and reliability to help solve the most difcult problems facing enterprises and service providers. Customers can select the appropriate Cisco IOS software feature sets to meet their evolving network requirements. Features such as Network Address Translation (NAT), Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol (DHCP), and Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) can be easily deployed individually or in combination with each other across a wide range of Cisco platforms (from the low-end Cisco 800 series to a Cisco 7500 or Layer 3 switch).

Cisco IP Services comprises many basic and advanced building blocks that enable customers to: Deploy an IP network with basic end-to-end IP connectivity Manage their IP addressing requirements from a central location Control the IP addressing scheme used throughout their network Provide redundancy at major network connection points

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Cisco IOS Software

Security Time-Based ACLs IPSec Cisco IOS Firewall TCP Intercept etc. Management ATM PVCs CLI Search RTR etc.

SNA/IP Cisco Database Connection DL Sw Enhancements DL Sw + SNA Type of Service etc. Voice Voice Over IP Q.SIG MGCP Reliability HSRP APS/Sonet SSRP

SNMP Manager SNM Pv/3

H.323v2 SGCP SIP

Switching Cisco Express Forwarding NetFlow Services Tag Switching IEEE 802.1QvLANs xDSL Subscriber Support etc. IP Services and Routing DHCP Client, Relay, Server DNS Mobile IP HSRP NAT OSPE Pacing Triggered RIP IS-IS Enhancements mBGP ODR Stub EIGRP... PIM Version2 PGM WCCPv2 MPLS VPNs

etc...

Connectivity/Scalability NFAS/D Channel L2TP L2F Stacking PPP/FrameRelay ISDN Management FastEther Channel L2F Load Sharing etc. AO/DI

Quality of Service Committed Access Rate IP_ATM CoS Weighted RED NetFlow Policy Routing (NPR) BGP Policy Propagation Class-Based Queuing GRE Precedence Per-Flow Queuing TCP Pacing etc.

Cisco IOS Software IP Services: DHCP for Greater Network Serviceability

NAT for Increased Scalability

DHCP is a set of Internet standards (RFC 2131, 2132, 1534) that enable workstations and devices to request an IP address for connection to an IP network. DHCP denes three components: client, relay agent, and server. Cisco IOS software implements all three components, and customers use these components to simplify and manage the deployment of their network to both new and existing locations.

NAT is an Internet standard (RFC 1631) for translating or changing IP addressing information as it passes through an IP network. Cisco has an implementation of a super-set of the standard, and provides customers the ability to dynamically translate or statically change an IP address, as well as multiplex many users to one or a few IP addresses.

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Network Address Translation

Inside Network

Outside Network

10.0.0.2

SA 10.0.0.2

NAT

SA 192.69.1.1 Internet/Intranet

10.0.0.3 SA=Source Address NAT Table Inside Local IP Address 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.3 Inside Global IP Address 192.69.1.1 192.69.1.2

Source Address 10.0.0.2 is Translated to 192.69.1.1 Users in the Outside Network See User at 10.0.0.2 as 192.69.1.1

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DHCP and NAT Working Together

Cisco IOS NAT ISP POP Client A ATM IP ATU-R Cisco IOS DHCP Server Access Through ISP POP

Cisco IOS NAT

Client A

E0 E1

E0 E0

ATU-R

Cisco IOS DHCP Server DHCP Server

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DHCP

HSRP
Eliminates single point of failure at the rst hop Provides transparent fail-over without requiring hosts to run special routing software Increases network availability

Enables a privately addressed network Automates client and device IP address to access registered networks, such as conguration, removing the the Internet, without requiring registered requirement for manual conguration IP addresses on end hosts Enables centralized network Enables connectivity between networks management with overlapping (duplicate) private addresses Eliminates the need for host renumbering when changing Internet service providers (ISPs) or addressing schemes Enables many-to-one IP address mapping

HSRP for High Availability

Mission-critical applications are vital to business. Network downtime can cost millions of dollars per hour in lost revenue. A reliable network starts with a good design that includes redundant systems and links. Cisco IOS software reliability services include HSRP, which provides network redundancy for IP networks in a way that ensures that user trafc will immediately and transparently recover from rst-hop failures in network edge devices or access circuits. HSRP is particularly useful when users on one subnet require continuous access to resources in the network.Cisco End-to-End Solutions

Cisco internetworking devices interconnect more media types than any other networking vendor. Cisco IOS software provides an end-to-end foundation that centralizes management and conguration, enables fault-tolerant reliability, and allows networks to scale to meet the demands of network growth and emerging services and solutions.
For Additional Information

Additional information about Cisco IOS IP Services can be found at www.cisco.com or by contacting your local Cisco representative.

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