Cisco Secure Network Server

[VKJ07]

Good day, everyone. So I'm a first year college student majoring in Network Computing, and I have been given an assignment. The assignment requires choosing a device that possesses networking capabilities. It can range from mobile phones, computers, and many more devices as well. Along with this, we are supposed to describe the technology used in the device along with the protocols used by the device as well. In the efforts of being different from the rest 😛 , the product we have chosen is the Cisco Secure Network Server. The product data sheet can be viewed below:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/vpndevc/ps5712/ps11640/data_sheet_c78-726524.html

As for now, we have everything figured out, except the protocol that is used by this server. I tried looking high and low and I can't seem to find the protocol used by this servers. I tried looking up other Cisco servers, and they don't have any protocols published on their data sheets as well. I believe there's something I'm not doing right since there aren't any descriptions on protocols for any of these servers. I truly hope someone could help shed some light on this topic. I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

 

[noidea_77]

But the data sheet tells you what services this appliance provides and other Cisco sites tell you more about the applications used to do that, like Radius for access control services.

 

[leo2kp]

You've decided to pick a complicated device that uses many different protocols for communication. Being a server, it has to support virtually any protocol that your network and applications require. It sounds like you might want to consider a less complicated device that uses fewer protocols, maybe something more end-user-ish where the level of configuration required is greatly reduced, and thus the protocol(s) used have been predetermined and preconfigured.