Cisco Active Network Abstraction

Flexible Management for Converged Networks

In today's increasingly complex networking environments, customers need a more simplified network management system to help increase operational efficiency and strengthen competitive advantage. Having a common set of components in place enables customers to realize the benefits of economies of scale and deploy new services with increased time-to-market. Businesses also need reliable network management software to enable device, network, and service management in a multivendor, multi-technology network environment.

Cisco Active Network Abstraction (ANA) is a powerful, next-generation network resource management solution designed with a fully distributed OSS mediation platform which abstracts the network, its topology and its capabilities from the physical elements. Its virtual nature provides customers with a strong and reliable platform for service activation, service assurance and network management.

Cisco ANA also provides a flexible, vendor-neutral resource management system that supports both a multiservice network environment along with the management capabilities required to sustain reliable, converged voice, video and data networks.

A comprehensive developer program is available to help enable end-user and partner developers integrate and test the interoperability of existing OSS/BSS applications with Cisco ANA. This program also includes various go-to-market opportunities for partners to promote their applications to Cisco ANA end-users.

Cisco ANA offers such advanced features as:

• Simplified integration of OSS applications with near real-time network information from one authoritative source
• An extensible common network resource management infrastructure
• Consistent procedures and interfaces for all network elements
• Integration SDK for developers