License Tiers

Crosswork Assurance Licensing Tiers

Cisco Crosswork Assurance has two offerings to align with customer use cases:

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

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

Summary of Crosswork Assurance Essentials Functionality

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

Crosswork Assurance functionalities included:

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

Summary of Crosswork Assurance Advantage Functionality

Sensor Agents Advantage offers the full value and power of the platform:

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

Crosswork 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 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. Crosswork Assurance hardware sensors are sold separately.

Advantage includes all Essentials functionality, as well as Cisco Crosswork 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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