Get AI-ready connectivity: intelligent, simple, resilient
Imagine a simpler network architecture optimized for flexible service deployment, built for resilient experiences, and ready to monetize. Meet Agile Services Networking.
Discover the transformative benefits of Cisco Agile Services Networking, delivering a simplified network architecture optimized for adaptable service deployment and resilient experiences.
Intelligent delivery
Monetize service deployment anywhere. Deploy closer to end users with unified network building blocks powered by Cisco Silicon One. This can help to optimize scalability, bandwidth, power efficiency, and cost.
Simplified networks
Remove complexity by converging IP and optical network layers to increase efficiency, reduce TCO, and simplify network operations across access, transport, and DCI applications.
AI-powered operations
Reduce operating expenses with AI-powered analytics that support predictive and prescriptive automation for network optimization and troubleshooting.
Resilient experiences
Gain end-to-end network security and observability, which delivers the assurance that protects and elevates user experiences.
Agile Services Networking in action
Evolve your network architecture to power AI connectivity.
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Agile Services Networking
Flexible metro service delivery
Overview
Offer better experiences for residential, business, and mobile services with Cisco Agile Metro. It’s simpler and more cost-effective to build, operate, and scale AI-ready connectivity and provide flexible service delivery from locations closer to end users.
Benefits
Deploy services closer to end users from anywhere in the network to improve user experiences.
Reduce costs with scalable, high-performance, and energy-efficient routers.
Accelerate time to market and increase operational efficiency with AI-enabled automation.
Improve experiences with proactive, intent-based assurance and granular visibility of performance metrics.
Simplify networks by converging IP and optical architectures with Cisco Routed PON and Routed Optical Networking solutions.
Reduce the cost to connect AI-ready data centers with Data Center Interconnect (DCI) using coherent pluggable optics. Agile Data Center Connectivity offers a converged IP and optical infrastructure for connecting distributed data centers, while extending reliable connectivity and performance to users and endpoints.
Features
Simplify Data Center Interconnect (DCI) by converging IP and optical network layers with coherent pluggable optics.
Optimize CapEx and OpEx with higher-performance 400G and 800G systems that consume less energy.
Assure connectivity with granular visibility of performance metrics across network devices.
Expand Routed Optical Networking use cases from 100G to 800G links and cover distances up to 3,000 km with new coherent pluggable optics.
Deliver better experiences by simplifying and converging your mobile transport and private mobile access network. Streamline network design to accommodate applications such as cell site routing, xHaul, and 5G metro aggregation with Cisco Agile Mobile Transport.
Features
Simplify your mobile transport with a unified architecture from access to edge to core.
Optimize efficiency with high-performance and power-efficient Silicon One-based routers.
Deliver low-latency mobile services and AI applications with assured SLAs.
Automate operations and control real-time network services and SLA performance.
Secure mobile traffic, AI workloads, and applications with end-to-end encryption.
Redefine core and peering with Agile Core solutions that offer dynamic, intelligent, and scalable architectures that adapt to evolving network demands. Enhance connectivity by supporting edge features and functions from a converged core.
Features
Simplify the core backbone with high-performance, high-density routers.
Optimize CapEx and OpEx with space, power, and energy-efficient systems combined with advanced automation.
Leverage Routed Optical Networking and benefit from reduced TCO with expanding use cases for 800G links and reaches of up to 3,000 km.
Achieve consistent operations with a unified Cisco IOS® XR network operating system.
In this white paper, developed by global analyst and advisory leader Omdia, you’ll learn about the latest developments, possible effects, and opportunities for service provider architectures to connect AI networks.
Build the internet of the future with cloud-enhanced systems. Get performance, functionality, and scalability you can count on with routers powered by Cisco Silicon One.
Support the application performance required to power your services with rich edge routing features at scale. Meet the needs of mass-scale networks with a platform that grows with you.
Get industry-leading innovations in port density and become more agile and more sustainable as you scale. These routers can handle massive traffic growth easily with 100 Gigabit Ethernet and 400G port density.
Enable convergence without compromise and redefine AI/ML networking—all with one silicon architecture. With Silicon One, you get the highest bandwidth routing and switching for building networks.
Simplify your architecture through convergence of the IP and optical layers. Lower environmental expenses, streamline operations, and prepare for growth.
"We partnered with Cisco end to end, implementing Silicon One-based 8000 Series Routers, which perfectly aligned with our sustainability and business goals. In our journey so far, we have been able to converge 20 MPLS networks into one SRv6 network with an astounding 90% reduction in power."
Markus Reber, Executive Vice President
Swisscom
Power-efficient platforms help meet net zero goals
"Sustainability is always top of mind, so we are pleased to continue our innovation partnership with Cisco and leverage new Cisco 8000 Series solutions based on the P100 Silicon One ASIC that can help us meet net-zero goals."
Reduced energy consumption for affordable, scalable bandwidth
"80% of our European core is now running over RON, which means we have power savings of 97%. But at the same time, we have less rack space because we have 35 times more capacity than we had before."
"This network transformation will help us strengthen our financial health further. We have calculated that it will enable us to save 125 million Canadian dollars over the next 10 years, with around a 27% reduction in CapEx. The CapEx savings will more than double when we use RON directly over dark fibers."
Marc-André Gilbert, Senior Manager of Transport Planning
