Cisco Ultra Cloud Core At-a-Glance
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Cisco® Ultra Cloud Core is a Kubernetes-based solution that provides a common execution environment for Cisco’s container-based 5G applications. This cloud-native platform is designed to meet the high-security and high-availability requirements of service provider networks. Additionally, it is designed for distributed architectures enabling multicloud and edge services at massive scale.
Using the Cisco Ultra Cloud Core, Cisco 5G applications are enabled with:
● Advanced analytics and advanced infrastructure health checks
● Simplified and low-risk methods to introduce new 5G services, new configurations, and upgrades
● Automated deployment and automated testing as part of a CICD workflow
● Consistent technology and software components across all Cisco 5G applications
Service providers who use the Cisco Ultra Cloud Core can benefit with faster time to market for new services, easier and automated deployments and upgrades, and overall lower operational costs.
● Introduce new software and services up to 90% faster and with far less risk – Intelligent Services Mesh and common execution environment
● Simplify the complex by having all change management orchestrated with Cisco operations center and release operations framework
● New level of network visibility by integrating application dynamics and open tracing
Cisco Ultra 5G Cloud Core – cloud native functions
Cisco integrated intelligent service mesh functionality
The Cisco Ultra Cloud Core provides an intelligent service mesh that connects all services in the platform. This service mesh allows granular control of traffic flows within the Cisco Ultra Cloud Core based on message attributes or subscriber details. New or upgraded services can run concurrently in the platform alongside existing services, and the service mesh controls which messages are directed to the new service. Per-service telemetry is available to compare and evaluate the success of the new service. As a result, rollouts and upgrades are low risk and can be entirely automated—removing the human element.
Unique benefits:
● Reduce risks from introducing software upgrades or new services
● Faster time to market and revenue (up to 90% faster)
Cisco’s cloud-native Mobile Core provides benefits in three key areas:
● CI/CD workflows. Implementation of services can be reduced to four minutes versus four hours, resulting in an 80% or greater improvement in OpEx. For example, VNFs are deployed 18 times faster with containers.
● Micro-service architectures. Micro-services enable agility in the release of new features, and when combined with a CI/CD workflow, they can reduce availability of releases with new services in four days rather than four months, for a more than 90% improvement in time to market. For example, a cloud-native “canary” process can enable zero downtime for feature deployment, versus the 5 to 10 seconds per containers for a greater than 85% reduction in costs alone.
● Performance. The efficiency of cloud-native technology receives a performance-boost for the user plane using Cisco’s Vector Packet Processing technology delivering a major performance increase from approximately 20 Gbps per server to approximately 400 Gbps per server, for a 20x-times improvement.