Company launches industry's most comprehensive closed-loop
multi-vendor, multi-domain automation solution
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 20, 2018
(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cisco today introduced its new Cisco Crosswork
Network Automation software portfolio to improve how global service
providers run their large-scale networks. The solutions are
designed to work together to offer greater network visibility at
scale (mass awareness), data-driven insights (augmented
intelligence) and outcome-based automation (proactive
control).
With 27 billion devices and connections1 expected
to be running on service provider networks by 2021, the pressure is
on for industry adoption of complete lifecycle network automation
and intent-based networking to help networks predict change and
react in near real time.
Traditional operations staff will not be able to
keep up with adding nearly 10 percent more devices every year
without changing how they work. When Cisco automation is utilized,
typical results include a 70 percent improvement in operational
efficiency, 30 percent revenue uplift and a 40 percent improvement
in customer satisfaction2.
The new Cisco Crosswork Network Automation
software portfolio helps innovative global service providers
like Telstra and many
others, automate their networks
and explore how to effectively extract and manage huge amounts of
data to help their networks react to common events and impending
security threats.
This new portfolio offers service providers a
single point of integration with zero-touch telemetry, machine
learning intuition, open APIs and automated actions that offer a
simpler experience. It is backed by Cisco Services to assist
customers with planning, customization and implementation.
New software technologies
available today include:
- Cisco Crosswork Change
Automation: Automated operations application that
enables large-scale change and closed-loop control
- Cisco Crosswork Health
Insights: Smart sensors, smart alerts and smart
remediation to monitor and optimize networks
- Cisco Crosswork Data
Platform: Featuring both an OpenSource and
commercial-class data analytics platform
- Cisco Crosswork Network
Insights: Cloud-based analytics solution for solving
large-scale routing issues
- Cisco Crosswork Situation
Manager: Machine learning-based event correlation
featuring social tools such as chat functions to solve repair
issues quickly.
The Cisco Crosswork Network Automation solution
extends capabilities of the Cisco Network Services Orchestrator
(NSO), offering the industry's most comprehensive closed-loop
multi-vendor, multi-domain automation solution, with service
orchestration and automation applications that support third-party
solutions with open APIs.
Solving Customer
Challenges
With this new portfolio, Cisco is uniquely offering its service
provider customers easy onboarding into the network automation
process. Key customer challenges the Cisco Crosswork Network
Automation portfolio addresses include:
- Human driven network
changes are error prone, time consuming, and lack comprehensive
validation.
- Cisco Network Services Orchestrator transforms
network changes into intent-driven deployments with automatic
validation
- Data silos make network
data impossible to analyze and correlate.
- Cisco Crosswork Data Platform creates a single
point to seamlessly collect, analyze, and visualize network data
across multiple services and domains
- Customer experience suffers
when variations in network quality go unnoticed.
- The Cisco Crosswork Data Platform, combined with
Cisco Crosswork Health Insights, utilizes real-time visualization
with analytics to provide unparalleled insight into network
performance.
- The time needed to manually
identify network problems results in significant business impacts
when outages occur.
- Cisco Crosswork Situation Manager uses artificial
intelligence algorithms to automatically triangulate faults across
multiple network domains, drastically reducing the time to isolate
network outages, and provide root cause analysis to prevent future
outages
- Remediating network
problems is a slow and manual process.
- Cisco Crosswork Change Automation uses analytics
enhanced closed-loop automation to automatically remediate network
issues as they happen
- Global Routing Scale errors
can cause dramatic outages.
- Cisco Crosswork Network Insights enables a
cloud-first approach for resolving challenges in the rapidly
changing global routing environment
- Networks are not
continually optimized for business and service needs.
- Cisco WAN Automation Engine (WAE) and XR Traffic
Controller (XTC) use advanced telemetry and analytics to improve
network performance in real time without human intervention
"As we remain focused on building Australia's
leading network of the future, we are committed to delivering
superior quality networked experiences to our customers,"
said David Robertson, Director, Network
Transport & Routing Engineering, Telstra. "We are
equally focused on anticipating the challenges and opportunities
that affect our business goals. Our work with Cisco to reinvent our
network operations through orchestration, automation and advanced
data models offers us valuable insight for mass data collection,
applying analytics and machine learning, and taking decisive action
through automation."
"Only Cisco can offer this comprehensive and
holistic automation approach to solve challenges of today's mass
scale infrastructure," said Jonathan
Davidson, senior vice president
and general manager, Service Provider Networking,
Cisco. "Our primary goal for network automation is to
help our customers turn growing pains into growing profit, and
streamline operations so they can spend less time on tactical
'firefighting' and more time on identifying and trialing new
revenue streams."
Cisco is leading disruption in the industry with
our technology innovations in systems, silicon, optics and
security, and our unrivalled expertise in mass-scale
networking, automation, optical, cable access, video, and mobility.
Together with our portfolio of professional services, we can
enable service providers and media and web companies to reduce cost
and complexity, help secure their networks and grow
revenue.
Supporting Resources
- Cisco Crosswork Network Automation Product
Portfolio
- About Cisco Crosswork Network Automation
- Jonathan Davidson blog: 'Cisco Crosswork
Network Automation: The Industry's Most Comprehensive Closed-Loop
Automation Solution'
- Cisco Network Services Orchestrator
- Cisco Services
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1 Cisco
Visual Networking Index Forecast, 2016-2021
2 Cisco
BTA analysis on automation