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Cisco® Ultra Cloud Core has unique capabilities making it the revenue-generating foundation of 5G transformation by speeding delivery of new services, reducing costs, and mitigating risks.
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.
Table 1. Ultra Cloud Core features and benefits
| Feature |
Benefit |
| Cisco intelligent service mesh |
What it is: Intelligent service mesh routes traffic within the cluster to specific application instances. Result: Multiple variations and configurations of services can run concurrently. Result: New services and upgrades can be introduced with very low risk. |
| Common execution environment |
What it is: Common components for logging, alarming, events, deployment, upgrades, configuration, and provisioning Result: Cisco 5G applications are configured the same, deployed the same, and share the same logging, alarming, telemetry components. Result: Onboarding additional Cisco applications is easy. |
| Cisco operations center |
What it is: An agent can deploy applications using a YANG schema and expose NETCONF/RESTCONF interfaces to each product by integrating with Cisco Network Services Orchestrator. Result: Common API, command line interface (CLI), and GUI interface to each 5G application Result: All change management can be orchestrated. |
| Granular tracing |
What it is: Integration with application dynamics and open tracing for traffic flow monitoring Result: A new level of visibility of traffic flows across network functions and between and within services |
| Release automation framework |
What it is: This framework provides the ability to automate testing as part of the service deployment. Result: Testing becomes part of the service deployment workflow. Result: This automation reduces the time needed to certify new services, code, and new configurations, and reduces the time to market. |
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)
Table 2. Platform support
| Product family |
Platforms supported |
| Cisco Ultra Cloud Core |
VMware 6.5 OpenStack Bare metal Google Cloud Amazon Cloud Microsoft Azure |
Table 3. Licensing
| Uses Cisco Smart Licensing – registers applications and number of sessions |
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| Application base |
Per 5G application, per cluster |
| Sessions (increments of 10k) |
Per 5G application, network-wide |
Table 4. Product specifications
| Cisco Ultra Cloud features |
| Cisco common execution environment |
| Cisco intelligent service mesh |
| Release automation framework |
| Custom data store adapters |
Table 5. System requirements
| Feature |
Description |
| Disk space |
2 x 800 GB SSD (RAID 1) or equivalent input/output operations per second (IOPS) and redundancy |
| Hardware |
● High-performance x86 64-bit chipset
● CPU performance Passmark benchmark of 13K rating per chip and 1365 rating per thread, or better
● ESX-compatible if using VMware
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| Memory |
● At least DDR3-1600 or better than 1600 MT/s
● ECC
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| Deployment requirement |
Hardware oversubscription, network saturation, or CPU oversubscription reduces application performance and predictability. The Cisco Ultra Cloud Core will detect and take action when infrastructure requirements are not met. |
Table 6. Ordering information
| Product IDs |
Ultra mobility platform capabilities |
| UCC-SMI-BAS-L-K9 |
SMI Basic perpetual |
| UCC-SMI-BAS-B-K9 |
SMI Basic subscription |
| UCC-SMI-PLS-L-K9 |
SMI Plus perpetual |
| UCC-SMI-PLS-B-K9 |
SMI Plus subscription |
Cisco Ultra Cloud Core has the standard Cisco software warranty.
Cisco environmental sustainability
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Reference |
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