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Q. What is Cisco Active Network Abstraction (ANA)?
A. Cisco ANA is a flexible and powerful vendor-neutral device management system that doubles as an enabling platform for value-added network and service management applications in a multitechnology, multiservice network environment.
Q. Who should deploy Cisco ANA?
A. Cisco ANA is designed for service provider environments.
Q. What benefits can customers expect from deploying Cisco ANA?
A. The unique approach and key innovations of Cisco ANA improve service providers' business through:
• Simplified integration of OSS applications with near real-time network information from one authoritative source
• A future-proof common device management infrastructure
• Consistent procedures and interfaces for all network elements
Q. What networking technologies are supported by Cisco ANA?
A. Cisco ANA supports IP, Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN, XDSL, ATM, Frame Relay, Gigabit Ethernet, Ethernet, 802.1Q, Inter-Switch Link (ISL), QinQ VLAN tag (QinQ), shielded twisted pair (STP), Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP), and routing protocols (such as Border Gateway Protocol [BGP]).
Q. Can Cisco ANA be integrated with my existing OSS applications?
A. Cisco ANA dynamically discovers and identifies device and network components and understands the near real-time status of network elements. This abstraction model facilitates a consistent set of embedded device management features in Cisco ANA, while providing a rich set of platform and network mediation services for both Cisco and partners' value-added network and service management applications.
Q. What major features are provided in Cisco ANA?
A. Cisco ANA key capabilities are divided into three separate categories:
• Vendor-neutral device management
• Enabling platform for value-added network and service management applications
• Standards-based access to near real-time device and network information
Q. What devices are supported in Cisco ANA?
A. Cisco ANA is a multivendor system. Without additional configuration, Cisco ANA supports any MIB-II supported device. More extensive device support is available for a broad range of Cisco products and other multivendor networking hardware.
For More Information
For more information about Cisco ANA, visit http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6776/index.html, contact your local account representative, or send an e-mail to the Cisco ANA product management team at ask-ana@cisco.com.