This document discusses using SharePoint 2010 to collaborate with external partners through an extranet. It covers:
1) The benefits of an extranet for security isolation and partner collaboration.
2) SharePoint 2010's improved support for claims-based authentication and multiple authentication providers to better support extranets.
3) Various architecture options for extranet implementations, including scenarios where extranet and internal users are separated across farms or forests with different levels of access and security isolation.