Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.0 Getting Started Guide

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CISCO PRIME INFRASTRUCTURE 2.2
At-A-Glance
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Overview
For WAN managers continually balancing the need for business agility, the growing 
demand for more bandwidth, and the costs of the WAN itself, there’s 
 (IWAN). Cisco IWAN helps you get the most from your existing WAN and Internet 
connections. It dynamically routes traffic based on application, endpoint, and network 
conditions, offloading best-effort traffic from your premium WAN connections to the 
lower-cost Internet. With Cisco IWAN, you can reduce cost without compromising 
service quality.
Realizing maximum value from Cisco IWAN begins with 
. Cisco Prime Infrastructure drives automation and best practices that make IWAN 
deployments fast and easy, from setting up branch devices and IWAN services to 
automatically managing and monitoring them. 
With Cisco Prime Infrastructure, you can eliminate tedious manual WAN configuration 
and monitoring. Deployments that would typically take you weeks or even months can 
now be completed in hours. There’s no need to learn how to manually configure a 
complex set of protocols and then push configurations one-by-one to dozens, perhaps 
thousands, of devices and branches. You no longer have to use the command-line 
interface (CLI) to tell network devices which traffic can go through the Internet and which 
to the WAN. And then you can monitor what’s going on with 360-degree visibility.
Figure 1.  Provisioning Wizard for IWAN Services
Spotlight on Cisco IWAN Management Capabilities
Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2 provides new and enhanced capabilities that accelerate 
IWAN deployment, optimize WAN performance, and simplify day-to-day management. 
These include:
•  Configuration workflow: Cisco has distilled its vast expertise in WAN design 
and configuration into a guided workflow with embedded best practices based 
on Cisco-validated designs. In this workflow you’ll be able to enable Dynamic 
Multipoint VPN (DMVPN), Performance Routing (PfRv3), quality of service (QoS), 
and Application Visibility and Control (AVC), both for the branch and hub. After the 
administrator sets the particulars for each device, the workflow pushes configuration 
images to all devices at the same time. Get fast time to value when rolling out your 
Cisco branch devices and IWAN services. 
Figure 2.  Configuring DMVPN