Cisco and Intel have partnered for over a decade not just on constructing products but also working together in open standards and open source. Our true partnership derives from how Cisco products consume Intel innovation and our joint focus/contributions to open source components that push the ultimate value in NFV forward - service creation.
Telecommunications are evolving: new opportunities are appearing and becoming concrete. Service Providers today face a challenging but very interesting scenario. To stay competitive, they need to do more than just re-engineer their networks. Service providers need to rethink how they engage with their customers to meet their business needs and the key success factors are:
The Cisco Open Network Architecture can help you achieve these objectives. It uses software-defined networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), open APIs, and advanced orchestration capabilities.
Cisco Open Network Architecture
Cisco Open Network Architecture is built upon the innovative, open, and programmable capabilities and interactions between these complementary platforms:
Cisco Applications and Services
Cisco Evolved Services Platform (ESP)
Cisco Evolved Programmable Network (EPN)
Applications and Services
The Cisco Open Network Architecture is an industry leading service enablement platform. But Cisco also provides many applications and services that our Service Provider, Enterprise, and Small/Medium business customers use every day to make their businesses more successful.
Examples of these Services include:
Virtualized Managed Services
Cisco InterCloud Services
Cisco Cloud Collaboration
Analytics
VoLTE
VoWi-Fi
CloudVPN
…and many more
Cisco’s Evolved Services Platform and Evolved Programmable Network layers provide the Automation, Orchestration and Dynamic capabilities to quickly create and modify services without physically touching the network topology.
Evolved Services Platform (ESP)
ESP is comprehensive, modular, unified virtualization and orchestration software platform. Working in conjunction with the EPN via bi-directional open APIs, it can help you automate and orchestrate both applications and network services in real time.
Accelerate your time to revenue
Reduce operational costs
Deploy new services at web speed
Transform your business, and those of your customers
Evolved Programmable Network (EPN)
The EPN is the programmable, physical and virtual network infrastructure that includes Compute, Network and Storage. This layer spans the customer premise through the wide area network and into the data center where the services reside. EPN extends new capabilities across multivendor and legacy elements, so you can:
Simplify the network
Reduce costs
Boost revenues
Realize the true value of the underlying network
Part of the EPN designed specifically for data center is the Application Centric infrastructure (ACI).
ACI extends centralized automation and policy-focused application profiles into the data center domain. It improves software flexibility with hardware performance and scalability across an open, multivendor ecosystem of physical and virtual infrastructure elements.
With Cisco ACI you can:
Automate provisioning and resource management with an application-focused policy model
Centralize visibility with real-time application health monitoring
Improve flexibility for development and operations teams with open software and ecosystem partner integration
Scale performance and multi-tenancy in hardware
Doing it right for you and your customers
Employing SDN and NFV technologies will improve functionality, flexibility, and business agility. It will support higher-performing applications and better use of your network assets. Combining the complementary Cisco platforms above, you can optimize business value from SDN and NFV in an open multivendor ecosystem. You can reduce risk and complexity, and achieve your primary business outcomes: making money and saving money.
