Provider Connectivity Assurance's Key Benefits

What Makes Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance Different

Visibility

• Across all areas of the network, such as mobile networks, core networks, enterprise, datacenter, cloud, and containers
• Across all layers of the network, such as L2 (Ethernet) through L7 (application)
• Unsurpassed performance visibility, data granularity and ability to detect performance issues will allow users to see what other solutions can miss
• Fully virtualized/software based solution
• Cisco hardware is available if the user does not have a compute platform

Scale and performance

• Provider Connectivity Assurance deployed in some of the largest networks in the world
• Millions of sensors generating billions of performance measurements every day

Big Data and Machine Learning

• Leverage the power of Provider Connectivity Assurance to gain insight into network and application performance, turning billions of measurements into usable insight

Open APIs

• Provider Connectivity Assurance is a first class citizen in an automated network, with open APIs and event busses for integration into orchestration and IT systems
• Enable closed loop automation with real-time performance insight

Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance components can instrument virtually any network infrastructure, and can be deployed as pure software, pure hardware, or in a software-hardware hybrid fashion.

Why Choose Provider Connectivity Assurance

Our software uses the latest technologies available to achieve unprecedented accuracy for software-based measurements, leveraging microsecond-accurate timestamps from NFVi network ports, and streaming protocols to deliver the monitoring metrics in near real-time.

Provider Connectivity Assurance easily handles very large amounts of KPI data; our most dense deployment delivers more than 20 billion KPIs per day running on all-COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) servers.

Provider Connectivity Assurance APIs allow orchestration of all configurations in the monitoring topology, as well as intelligent auto-provisioning of Cisco Assurance Sensor SFP and Assurance Sensor Modules to ensure fully automated operations. When used with an orchestrator, Cisco VNFs can quickly and easily be deployed on popular OpenStack managed infrastructure running either KVM or VMware ESXi.

The lightweight Cisco reflector agent is ideal for direct deployment on hypervisor operating systems or inside VNFs as a micro service.

All for a fraction of the cost of legacy network & application performance monitoring vendors.

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