The product was deployed with the help of our company's in-house team.

The deployment process took a week, involving the acquisition and firmware upgrade of physical devices. Configurations included setting up a clustered operation, linking to identity services (e.g., Active Directory or RADIUS), and defining failback mechanisms. Nodes were assigned roles (active/passive), and identity sources for client storage were determined. An IP subnet for client assignments was established, and thorough testing ensured the setup's functionality. We handled the maintenance with a team of two individuals – one administrator and one manager.

The product can be deployed in-house. We do not need many people to maintain the solution. The IT team can manage it.

The implementation phase of the solution was carried out with the help of a consultant.

We implemented the product in-house with the help of our technical team.

I can manage the solution's deployment process by myself.

The solution was deployed in our organization through an in-house team. Cisco IOS SSL VPN's deployment was quite fast. However, deploying Cisco Duo took some time because the vendor had to call us, and then we had to arrange to share the password on a phone call.

Initially, we received an email from the vendor mentioning the URL of our server. The domain and the port were mentioned, and then we had to allow that in our network. Once we allowed it in our network, we had to install Cisco's client. They had given us a link for downloading it. After downloading it, we had to deploy it on whichever PCs were responsible for connecting to the network.

Deploying the solution can be done very fast, in around 30 minutes.

We implemented the solution through an in-house team.

I used a software extension for the product's deployment.

There are not too many people involved in the deployment and maintenance. For example, in my previous company in the bank, we had around 80,000 employees. We support six VPN boxes, each capable of supporting this number times 5,000. 

At the time, not everyone was in need of a VPN but, following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have doubled the capacities to accomodate more people. 

As such, one can say that there are only a few people who comprise the support team, the number consisting of three or four. Not too many people are needed since it will not break easily. 

We are talking about monitoring capacity and some regular maintenance, such as the OS upgrade. RMA is the prescribed response in the event of device failure. Not much is needed besides this and it is reflected in the size of the teams. 

As there are many who are familiar with these solutions and use them, this translates into more engineers working on them, thus making it easy to get support. 

To deploy the product, we must acquire the equipment and have the license to use it. We need one IT engineer to deploy and maintain the solution.

I'm a Cisco engineer, so I was able to implement the solution myself.

We didn't require any assistance for the setup or implementation. We did it ourselves. It was really quite simple.

We used an integrator for the deployment. 

We contacted a consultant, a reseller, and an integrator to implement this solution.