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Application-Oriented Networking (AON) changes how applications are deployed,

integrated, and managed by delivering common application infrastructure functions as net-

work-based services. By relocating these repeatable functions—such as application security,

messaging, logging, and event capture—into the network and onto Cisco Systems

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routers

and switches, Cisco AON helps to dramatically lower the cost and complexity of deploying

applications and maintaining application infrastructure. 

Today, CIOs face the reality that myriad business and technical issues severely limit how

technology can be applied to meet business needs. In the application infrastructure realm,

businesses cannot easily monitor critical business processes that span multiple middleware;

nor can they can apply consistent application security policies unless applications are all

deployed on the same application platform. These are the types of application infrastructure

challenges that Cisco AON helps remedy.

Cisco AON’s potential benefits to the CIO are far-reaching. Here are a few examples:

• Simpler, lower-cost application infrastructure—Cisco AON’s biggest impact is derived

from stripping away much of the complexity and redundancy that is inherent in most

application infrastructures. Many of today’s IT infrastructures were, for various justified

reasons, built rapidly to meet the pressing business problems of the day. One result is that

common utility functions—such as application security, logging, message routing, and

event capture—are handled differently in different platforms and systems. Despite numer-

ous consolidation efforts, most companies cannot standardize on a single platform

because of existing equipment, interoperability problems, or political reasons. By moving

these common functions into the network, the world of application development and

deployment becomes simpler and less costly to manage. 

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