Cisco Cisco Prime Provisioning 6.5 Getting Started Guide
At-A-Glance
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What Is the Value of Cisco Prime Provisioning?
Cisco Prime™ Provisioning accelerates consistent and reliable service deployments
by providing automated resource management and rapid profile-based provisioning.
It helps provide rapid provisioning of services across the entire network, including the
core, aggregation, access, and edge. (See Figure 1.)
by providing automated resource management and rapid profile-based provisioning.
It helps provide rapid provisioning of services across the entire network, including the
core, aggregation, access, and edge. (See Figure 1.)
What Problems Does Cisco Prime Provisioning Help Solve?
The convergence of networks and services has created significant operational
challenges for service providers and IT organizations. Disjointed management tools
that call for manually intensive configuration and provisioning tasks can no longer scale
to cost-effectively support hundreds of thousands of service instances of varying
requirements across the network. Furthermore, the lack of intelligent management
can complicate and slow down the velocity of service deployments. Cisco Prime
Provisioning addresses these challenges.
challenges for service providers and IT organizations. Disjointed management tools
that call for manually intensive configuration and provisioning tasks can no longer scale
to cost-effectively support hundreds of thousands of service instances of varying
requirements across the network. Furthermore, the lack of intelligent management
can complicate and slow down the velocity of service deployments. Cisco Prime
Provisioning addresses these challenges.
Key Features
•
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Layer 3 VPN management: Automated
provisioning, configuration, and functional audits using predefined service profiles
provisioning, configuration, and functional audits using predefined service profiles
•
Layer 2 VPN and Carrier Ethernet Management: Automated provisioning,
configuration, and functional audits for Carrier Ethernet VPNs, Any Transport over MPLS
(AToM) VPNs, and Radio Access Network (RAN) Backhaul
configuration, and functional audits for Carrier Ethernet VPNs, Any Transport over MPLS
(AToM) VPNs, and Radio Access Network (RAN) Backhaul
•
MPLS Traffic Engineering Management: Management of Cisco® MPLS Traffic
Engineering tunnels including:
Engineering tunnels including:
- Autoroute Announce
- Auto-Bandwidth
- DiffServ-Aware Traffic Engineering
- Fast Reroute (FRR)
•
MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) management: Design, path calculation,
provisioning, and audit of MPLS-TP tunnels through a single automated process
provisioning, and audit of MPLS-TP tunnels through a single automated process
• Preintegrated application component of the
suite: Helps support the complete lifecycle management of services including voice,
video, mobile, and cloud
video, mobile, and cloud
Figure 1. Cisco Prime Provisioning Service Request State and Operation
What Are the Benefits of Cisco Prime Provisioning?
• Accelerated deployment of Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs and Carrier Ethernet services
• Quick and easy service activation
• Reduced time required to diagnose MPLS-related network outages
• Ability to meet stringent service-level agreements (SLAs) for voice and video traffic
• Reduced time and complexity to provision MPLS-TP-based services
• Quick and easy service activation
• Reduced time required to diagnose MPLS-related network outages
• Ability to meet stringent service-level agreements (SLAs) for voice and video traffic
• Reduced time and complexity to provision MPLS-TP-based services
Who Can Benefit from Cisco Prime Provisioning?
• Service providers deploying and managing IP MPLS, Carrier Ethernet, and RAN
backhaul networks in support of fixed, mobile, video, and cloud services
• Utilities, government departments, transport agencies, and other organizations
seeking to lower the cost of managing their networks and to provide VPN services
to internal departments or third parties
to internal departments or third parties
• Existing Cisco IP Solution Center customers, who will appreciate the simplicity and
ease-of-use of the new user experience and the increased extensibility for device
management
management