Chapter 1 About Cisco IP Solution Center
The Customer’s and Provider’s View of the Network
The Customer’s and Provider’s View of the Network
From the customer’s point of view, they see their internal routers communicating with their customer edge routers (CEs) from one site to another through a VPN managed by the service provider (see Figure
Figure 1-5 The Customer’s View of the Network
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This simple view of the customer’s network is the advantage of employing VPNs: the customer experiences direct communication to their sites as though they had their own private network, even though their traffic is traversing a public network infrastructure and they are sharing that infrastructure with other businesses.
The service provider’s view of the network is naturally very different, as shown in Figure
Cisco IP Solution Center, 3.0: MPLS VPN Management User Guide, 3.0
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