Cisco Cisco Prime Provisioning 6.5 Documentation Roadmaps

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Cisco Prime Provisioning 6.5
Documentation Overview
This document is a roadmap that summarizes the steps required to use Prime Provisioning and provides 
a suggested reading order for the Cisco Prime Provisioning 6.5 documentation set.
Cisco Prime Provisioning 6.5 is a follow-on release to Cisco Prime Provisioning 6.4
Details of added, changed, and dropped functionality are provided in the 
Note
All documentation might be upgraded over time. All upgraded documentation will be available at the 
same URLs specified in this document.
Note
Prime Provisioning can be used as a standalone product or as part of the Cisco Prime Carrier 
Management suite. When installed as part of the suite, you can launch Prime Provisioning from the 
Prime Central portal as well as from the right-click menu on devices in Prime Network. For more 
information about Prime Central, see the documentation for 
Cisco Prime Provisioning is an intelligent network management application that helps reduce overall 
administration and management cost by providing automated resource management and rapid 
profile-based provisioning capabilities. Prime Provisioning enables fast deployment and time to market 
of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Carrier Ethernet technologies. In addition, the 
Prime Provisioning Traffic Engineering Management application is Cisco's exclusive planning and 
provisioning application for Cisco MPLS Traffic Engineering (MPLS-TE)-enabled routers. Cisco Prime 
Provisioning also leverages Cisco Prime Network to manage MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS TP) 
network topologies and offers RAN Backhaul capabilities via ATM and Expand to Time Division 
Multiplexing and Circuit EMulation (TDM-CEM) services.
The primary applications in Prime Provisioning include:
Carrier Ethernet Management
Radio Access Network (RAN) Backhaul Management
Layer 3 Virtual Private Network (Layer 3 VPN) Management 
MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS TP) Management