WAN Topologies Flashcards
What are the three basic topology options for a WAN?
Hub and Spoke or Star
Full-Mesh
Partial Mesh
What is the benefit of using a star topology?
What is the drawback?
Network simplicity
No redundancy
What is the purpose of creating a dual-carrier WAN design?
Increase redundancy and path diversity
Provides a pre-established communications path from the customer premises through the provider network to a remote destination
Dedicated communications link
Establishes a dedicated virtual connection for voice or data between a sender and a receiver. Two examples of this are PTSN (Public switched telephone network) and ISDN (Integrated services digital network).
Circuit-switched communications link
Data is transmitted in labeled frames, cells, or packets and include Frame Relay, ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) and X.25.
Packet-switched communications links
These links go through broadband services such as DSL, cable modem, and broadband wireless. They are combine with VPN technologies to provide privacy.
Internet WAN connection links
Gives enterprises a way to create end-to-end circuits across any type of transport medium using any available WAN technology
MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching)
What type of MPLS VPN is appropriate for customers that manage their own routing information?
Layer 2 MPLS VPN
What type of MPLS VPN is appropriate for customers that prefer to outsource their routing to a service provider?
Layer 3 MPLS VPN
These devices are responsible for encapsulating and encrypting traffic
VPN device
What are the two available options for VPN encryption?
IP Sec SSL
What are the two types of VPN?
Site to site
Remote access
A framework of open security standards that does not support broadcast or IP multicast.
IP Sec
What addition to IP Sec can enable routing and multicast?
GRE
What Cisco proprietary site-to-site VPN option allows a simple hub and spoke configuration and zero touch configuration for new hosts?
DMVPN (Dynamic Multipoint Virtual Private Network)