Cisco Cisco Application Performance Assurance Network Module Libro blanco
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SUMMARY: A VITAL PART THE OF CISCO INTELLIGENT INFORMATION NETWORK
The Cisco intelligent information network moves toward its fullest realization with Cisco AON.
Cisco AON is the logical fulfillment of the ongoing vision at Cisco to build intelligence into the network infrastructure itself, called the Cisco
Intelligent Information Network (IIN). Cisco IIN continues the value-adding tradition of enterprise-level infrastructure solutions that Cisco has
delivered for more than 20 years.
The goal is to allow the network to perform tasks once handled on separate devices and standalone platforms. For example, if a company wanted to
secure its network 10 years ago, it would have needed to install point products such as standalone firewalls or intrusion detection appliances at the
outer edge of the network. But as network complexity increased and as new threats appeared from inside the network, from the Internet, or through
wireless access points, point products were no longer sufficient. The response at Cisco was to employ a systems approach that embedded security at
all vulnerable points in the network: in the routers and switches, the remote-branch access routers, intrusion detection and antivirus software,
wireless access points, and voice-over-IP (VoIP) phones and call-processing components.
Cisco AON builds on this intelligence to handle application infrastructure services such as message transformation, application security, or message
routing that are today handled in the applications or third-party hardware appliances. It helps deliver on the Cisco IIN vision, building a network
infrastructure that meets a company’s most strategic business objectives aligned with industry trends such as virtualized computing and service-
oriented architectures. Cisco AON fundamentally transforms the network from being packet-based to also being application message-based and
elevates the business value of an IT infrastructure while enhancing existing application and network investment.
With IIN, having Cisco AON as a cornerstone, companies will ultimately be able to enhance many application capabilities without being required to
rewrite code in client applications at tens or hundreds of branch offices. This flexibility will allow the enterprise to adapt applications to address new
markets, enhance productivity, or meet new regulations such as those from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in the
medical field or from government accounting mandates such as Sarbanes-Oxley. Most important, enterprises will gain increased visibility, closer to
real time, into business transactions flowing across the network fabric. Security will also be applied consistently across all applications rather than
application by application.
The results are the rapid time to market, readily extensible collaboration, and on-demand computing that will help today’s enterprises become more
responsive to changing business conditions permanently. Like the transformation that occurred many years ago at the data network level,
application-level networking is poised to become the standard for performance and efficiency in enterprise application communications. Cisco AON
now allows applications and the network to work together more fully as an integrated system, and only Cisco has the experience to make this
advancement available today.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
For more information about Cisco AON, visit
http://www.cisco.com/go/aon
or
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6438/prod_module_series_home.html
or contact your Cisco account representative.