Routed Optical Networking planning service

Cisco CX provides a unified planning service to help customers simplify and plan the transition to a converged IP-Optical Routed Optical Network. By modeling current and future architectures, Unified Networking Planning accelerates progress toward Routed Optical Networking and creates opportunities for customers to reduce operating expenses.

Cisco CX uses questionnaires, workshops, interviews, and documentation reviews to capture unified planning requirements.

To execute network planning and assessment, Cisco CX

• collects information on sites, traffic demand, modeling requirements, interface types

• visualizes network layout with forecasted capacity and performs network modeling

• estimates traffic behaviors in failure scenarios, assesses failure impact, and

• compares network architectures in terms of number of interfaces, hardware, sites, rack space, and power requirements.

Cisco CX provides ongoing technical advice and guidance, enabling customer planning teams to share interim and final planning service results and reports

Cisco WAN Automation Engine

The Cisco WAN Automation Engine (WAE) platform is an open, programmable framework that interconnects software modules, communicates with the network, and provides APIs to interface with external applications.

Cisco WAE provides the tools to create and maintain a model of the current network through continual monitoring and analysis of the network and its traffic demands. At any time, this model contains all relevant network information, including topology, configuration, and traffic details. This information forms the basis for analyzing the impact of changes in traffic demands, paths, node and link failures, network optimizations, or other adjustments.

Cisco WAE is used for IP and optical network planning of multivendor networks.

For more information, see Cisco WAN Automation Engine Data Sheet

Cisco Optical Network Planner

Cisco Optical Network Planner (Cisco ONP) is a tool that models and tests Optical Transport Networks and DWDM optical networks using a graphical environment. The primary purpose of Cisco ONP is to design and validate networks of the NCS 2000 series and NCS 1010. Using the Cisco ONP tool, you create multiple instances of a network, modify different parameters at each instance, and compare the instances.

Cisco ONP

• generates a rack view of all the sites in the network

• shows the differences between the instances, and

• provides a complete Bill of Materials (BOM) for the network.

Cisco ONP models the optical network, generates the BOM, and provides detailed information about the network. This information includes connection reports, optical reports, and traffic matrix.

Note

Cisco ONP must be used to perform the final optical network feasibility analysis and generate production network designs.

For more information, see Cisco Optical Network Planner (CONP) Data Sheet