Business applications are critical to the operation, productivity, and profitability of all organizations. Cisco Application Networking Services (ANS) solutions increase application performance, availability, and multilayer security, while simplifying your data center and branch infrastructure. This helps you lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and improve IT flexibility. Solution benefits include:
Performance: Ensures the best service to users in all network locations
Security: Protects critical applications, infrastructure, and data
Availability: Increases application availability
Simplification: Minimizes cost and complexity, reduces TCO
Cisco is working with key application vendors to jointly validate their applications over the Cisco network infrastructure. Together, the Cisco Data Center Assurance Program and our partners deliver tested and validated solutions for application and network integration.
Maximizes productivity for small offices and individual users
Optimizes application delivery
Reduces latency, increases throughput from the user to the data center
A Blueprint for Application Acceleration
The primary challenges for most businesses today are to increase productivity, maximize profitability, and keep costs down. This requires business applications to be securely and rapidly delivered to any user, at any time, wherever they may be.
Cisco Application Networking Services (ANS) transform your existing branch, data center, and campus networks into a business-enabling platform that can help your business:
Increase application performance and availability
Secure applications and data against the broadest range of attacks
Enable and migrate to a service-oriented architecture (SOA)
Enable branch office and data center consolidation
Accelerate new application deployment
Reduce total cost of ownership and enable better utilization of resources
Application Networking Solutions
The six attributes Cisco Application Networking Services deliver:
Application intelligence: Take control of applications and user experience.
Unified network services: Connect any person to any resource, with any device.
Integrated security: Build in protection for access, identity, and data.
Nonstop communications: Stay connected with a resilient infrastructure that enables business continuity.
Virtualization: Simplify your network and maximize resource utilization.
Operational manageability: Do more with less, deploy services faster, and automate routine tasks.
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Through the expanded Data Center Assurance Program, Cisco has worked with key application vendors to jointly validate reference architectures and best practices of their applications over the Cisco network infrastructure. Validated Cisco products for such applications include the Application Control Engine (ACE) family, Wide Area Application Services (WAAS), and storage networking solutions.
Together, Cisco and our partners deliver tested and validated solutions for application and network integration.
Cisco has worked with application vendor partners to test and validate data center and WAN solutions. Click the partner links for solution and design guides for that partner:
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The Cisco Application Delivery Network
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