Cisco has announced a significant enhancement to the company's Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) portfolio, an infrastructure layer for programmable networks that extends their core routing functionalities to the edge and access network. The enhancement saw Cisco introducing Cisco's Application Engineered Routing, Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Virtual Router and High-density 100GE line cards for the Cisco ASR 9000 Series. These latest EPN innovations are aimed at helping service providers to increase overall profitability and service agility in delivering new services to customers.
According to Cisco, the EPN which works with its SDN/NFV platform, the Cisco Evolved Services Platform (ESP) via open APIs, enables web-speed agility with an open, elastic, and application-centric network infrastructure. The Application Engineered Routing within the EPN enables applications to communicate directly with the network, allowing service providers to improve the quality of customer experience and simplify network operations.
The XRx 9000 Virtual Router, says Cisco, enables delivery of on-demand services to rapidly respond to customer demands and trial on-demand solutions, both which require service providers to deploy advanced virtualization capabilities. At the same time, to cater for the increasing network bandwidth to accommodate the onslaught of mobile, cloud and video applications, the high-density 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) line cards for the Cisco ASR 9000 Series allows service provider to deliver next-generation capabilities while cutting their own operating costs by lowering power consumption, cost per bit and floor space, added Cisco.
Our portfolio is the most comprehensive in the industry, supporting the actual requirements of our service provider customers for scale, virtualization with performance, and programmability – and not just point solutions to address the latest capability buzz word. Service providers must evaluate the unique needs of their networks, business models and customers, and deploy technologies that meet these needs. Our latest innovations will help our customers reduce costs while improving speed to new service delivery. They advance our EPN framework and arm service providers with the tools required to enhance their customers’ experiences, while optimizing their own architectures for greater profitability and growth.
Serafín Borrego, Global Networks & Platforms VP, Telefónica Global Solutions
Virtualization is streamlining not only our infrastructure, but also our intended global business outcomes. While our original virtualization deployment of IOS XRv is for a virtual route reflector, we are also evaluating other potential uses cases. A broad set of virtualization capabilities based on a well known operating system is very important to an international service provider like Telefónica. This opens many possibilities for us.
