Provider Connectivity Assurance License Tiers

Provider Connectivity Assurance Licensing Tiers

Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance (formally Accedian Skylight) has two offerings, in order to align with customers’ use cases:

1. Provider Connectivity Assurance Essentials is available to Cisco Crosswork Network Controller (CNC) customers only, offering a limited set of capabilities that are targeted to automated assurance integration with the Crosswork Network Controller platform.

2. Provider Connectivity Assurance Advantage is our full solution with all network and application performance monitoring capabilities.

Summary of Provider Connectivity Assurance Essentials Functionality

Provider Connectivity Assurance Essentials enables the following capabilities, and is available only to customers who have purchased Cisco Crosswork Network Controller Advantage and Service Health:

• CNC version 6.x - Continuous network assurance for Layer 3 leveraging Assurance Sensor Agents running Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol (TWAMP)
• CNC version 7.x - Continuous network assurance for Layer 3 leveraging Assurance Sensor Agents and/or Assurance Sensor Control running TWAMP

Provider Connectivity Assurance functionalities included:

• Sensor and Session Management through the included RESTConf interface
• Data Streaming through the included gNMI interface

Summary of Provider Connectivity Assurance Advantage Functionality

Provider Connectivity Assurance Advantage offers the full value and power of the platform:

• Visibility – Ultra granular network performance data
• Insights – Analytics for monitoring, troubleshooting, and trend analysis

Provider Connectivity Assurance Advantage offers a variety of assurance and monitoring capabilities:

• Continuous Network Assurance for Layer 2 or Layer 3 networks
• Continuous Application Performance Assurance leveraging Assurance Sensor Capture
• Monitoring Model Driven Telemetry (MDT) performance metrics on Cisco IOS® XR devices
• Monitoring Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) network performance metrics on third-party devices
• Service Activation Tests (can be achieved through hardware or software sensors)
• Continuous protocol testing to monitor endpoint responsiveness

Additional Advantage capabilities are available if hardware sensors are added to the customer solution. Provider Connectivity Assurance hardware sensors are sold separately.

Advantage includes all Essentials functionality, as well as Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance that provides:

• Retention of historical performance data
• Generation of threshold alerts
• Custom dashboards
• Refined troubleshooting and deep analysis tools
• Scheduled reports

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