Evolved Programmable Network (EPN)
Evolve your network infrastructure
Deliver new services faster with an openly programmable network strategy.
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Overview
Grow your business with your existing infrastructure
Expand your business faster and more easily with the Cisco Evolved Programmable Network. This network infrastructure brings software programmability and virtualization to the underlying physical hardware.
It can help you:
- Simplify existing networks and make them more agile
- Make money faster
- Cut costs and complexities when deploying new services
Our Evolved Programmable Network works with open APIs. It complements the Cisco Evolved Services Platform to help you realize these goals.
Benefits
Improve agility
That's the result of combining software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), and open-source software technologies.
Take control of your network
Automate, orchestrate, simplify, and speed up service delivery.
Integrate resources
Bring together network, compute, and storage resources across a multi-vendor environment.
Increase flexibility
Support higher-performing applications, and better use your network resources.
Cisco Open Network Architecture
Prepare your network for cloud scale
Find new opportunities for cloud scale networking. See how Cisco can help.
Products
NCS 1000 Series
Converge IP and optical networks for data center interconnections
NCS 2000 Series
Get a highly scalable DWDM platform for converged IP and optical networks.
NCS 4000 Series
Combine packet switching, optical transport network (OTN) switching, and coherent DWDM interfaces.
NCS 4200 Series
This network evolution platform includes support for circuit emulation, Ethernet, and optical transport networks.
NCS 5000 Series
Use our aggregation routers for metro aggregation and MPLS-enabled data center networks.
NCS 5500 Series
Get WAN aggregation for scaling between data centers and large enterprise, web, and service provider WAN and aggregation networks.
NCS 6000 Series
This core router can be used for a virtualizable and programmable network.
ASR 9000 Series
These edge routers are ideal for carrier Ethernet, mobile backhaul, and aggregation.
ASR 1000 Series
These edge routers are ideal for small-medium PE, BNG/SP WiFi, RR, Managed Services, and Cloud gateway deployments.
ASR 900 Series
Use this modular aggregation platform for converged mobile, residential, and business services.
cBR Series
Converged Broadband Routers for a Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP)
Solutions
Cable Access Solutions
Simplify and begin transforming your network towards an IP-centric infrastructure
Carrier Ethernet and Edge Networks
Programmable, flexible, and end-to-end solutions offer industry-leading scale and performance.
Convergence and Core Network Solutions
Deploy programmable core solutions to achieve massive scale and converge network layers.
Optical Network Solutions
Scale bandwidth, cut costs, deliver services faster, and converge network layers more easily.
Network Management and OSS
Get help planning, managing, monitoring, provisioning, and analyzing network functions and performance.
Security
Protect your whole network across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
Services
Use Cisco Services for advising, implementation, optimization, support, and training.
Service Provider Services
Work directly with Cisco professionals certified in a broad range of Cisco products, service provider architectures, and advanced technologies.