Cisco Validated Design Guides

These validated architecture-level and solution-level designs meet stringent quality criteria for secure networks.

Overviews

Secure WAN and MAN Solutions Overview
Deliver advanced services and applications, including fully integrated security, voice, and video.

IPsec VPN WAN Design Overview
Learn about the design choices for building an IPsec VPN WAN, including the factors that influence your choice.

Design Guides

Infrastructure Protection and Security Service Integration Design
Provide the WAN architecture with security from outside attacks and protect traffic entering or exiting the network.

Next Generation Enterprise MPLS VPN-Based WAN Design and Implementation Guide
This design guide focuses on the WAN core and the WAN edge.

Secure Enterprise-Class Teleworker (PDF - 3.5 MB)
Use Group Encrypted Transport (GET) VPN to deploy a scalable solution to LAN, WAN, branch, and teleworker locations.

Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN) Design Guide (Version 1.1)
Enable the secure exchange of data between two branch offices without traversing the head office.

Point-to-Point GRE over IPsec Design Guide
Find design and implementation best practices for deploying an IPsec network with GRE encapsulation.

IPsec Direct Encapsulation VPN Design Guide
Find Cisco VPN product performance details in scalable and resilient site-to-site VPN topologies.

Multicast over IPsec VPN Design Guide
Find configuration examples for implementing IP Multicast in a QoS-enabled IPsec VPN.

Digital Certificates/PKI for IPSec VPNs
Find design considerations, step-by-step configuration instructions, and basic management options for VPN crypto devices using X.509 digital certificates.