Cisco Cisco Prime Fulfillment Multivendor Service Orchestration 1.0 White Paper

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Separate Management Systems Require “Swivel-Chair Integration”

These methods result in high order fallout rates. They slow time to market for new services and limit a service
provider’s ability to monetize diverse network equipment. Changes or upgrades to services often require manual

intervention by highly skilled resources. Service assurance is put at risk.

In summary, while multivendor architectures offer the promise of flexibility, they introduce significant complexity.

Order fulfillment processes can become siloed and increase the need for manual intervention. This leads to a

reduction in business agility and an increase in operating costs and compromises the end-user experience.

Cisco Prime Fulfillment MVSO

Now there’s a viable alternative. In this era of programmable networking and high-level service orchestration,

Cisco has developed a compelling solution for the fulfillment of multivendor services. Cisco Prime Fulfillment

MVSO is designed to preserve the existing investments providers have made in management systems and

processes, beginning with Cisco and Alcatel-Lucent management platforms and their management processes.

This solution is a new addition to the Cisco Prime portfolio of management products, which provides orchestration

of Metro Ethernet services across these multivendor network environments. MVSO introduces predefined and

pretested service components for faster construction of service variations and new product offerings. With minimal

disruption to service provider environments, it eases insertion of Cisco equipment into existing Alcatel-Lucent

networks. Service providers can reduce time to market and decrease total cost of ownership through its powerful

automation of service delivery business process logic and easy integration with existing OSS architectures and

platform components.