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Cisco Elastic Services Controller
Business success is increasingly dictated by agility: the ability to respond quickly to
change, bring new services to market quickly, and do all of this within an environment
that is simple and inexpensive to operate. The Cisco
change, bring new services to market quickly, and do all of this within an environment
that is simple and inexpensive to operate. The Cisco
®
Elastic Services Controller
(ESC) promotes agility, flexibility, and programmability in network functions
virtualization (NFV) environments and offers comprehensive automated lifecycle
management capabilities. By design, Cisco ESC is built as an open and modular
system. It provides a single point of control to manage all aspects of NFV lifecycle for
virtual network functions (VNFs) in a dynamic environment. Drawing on industry
standards and open APIs, you can control the full lifecycle of all of your virtualized
resources, whether using Cisco or third-party VNFs, allowing you to choose best-in-
class industry solutions.
virtualization (NFV) environments and offers comprehensive automated lifecycle
management capabilities. By design, Cisco ESC is built as an open and modular
system. It provides a single point of control to manage all aspects of NFV lifecycle for
virtual network functions (VNFs) in a dynamic environment. Drawing on industry
standards and open APIs, you can control the full lifecycle of all of your virtualized
resources, whether using Cisco or third-party VNFs, allowing you to choose best-in-
class industry solutions.
Cisco ESC in combination with
®
will manage
complete VNFs, as well as the entire network service lifecycle.
The Cisco ESC is a primary product in the Cisco NFV orchestration portfolio, which provides an advanced lifecycle
management platform for NFV. It gives you everything you need to instantiate, monitor, and elastically scale VNFs
in an automated fashion. In short, it makes the promise of NFV
—end-to-end automation, agility, and simplicity—a
reality in your business.
Cisco ESC provides advanced VNF lifecycle management capabilities through an open, standards-based platform
that conforms to the ETSI NFV management and orchestration (MANO) reference architecture (Figure 1).
By conforming to industry NFV standards and exposing well-defined APIs, it can interoperate with any standards-
based NFV orchestration system.
Figure 1. Cisco ESC Conformance to ETSI NFV MANO Reference Architecture