The Cisco Lifecycle Services approach defines a minimum set of activities that will help customers successfully deploy and operate Cisco technologies and optimize their performance throughout the network lifecycle. The entire chain of events needs to occur in a coordinated manner in order for your customer to be successful. These events are sequential, interconnected, and interdependent.

The Cisco Lifecycle Services approach creates a framework for defining services that is independent of who performs the service activities—Cisco, partners, or customers themselves—enabling multiple parties to provide the support needed in a coordinated manner.