Network Management and Automation

At-A-Glance

• Cisco Prime for Enterprise At-A-Glance (PDF - 653 KB)
  Discover how to more effectively manage and simplify network operations.
• Cisco Prime for Enterprise Products At-A-Glance (PDF - 508 KB)
  Explore the key features and benefits of Cisco Prime for Enterprise products.

Featured Enterprise Product Portfolio

The Cisco Prime product portfolio delivers integrated management solutions that support the convergence of networks, technologies, and services. The product portfolio includes:

• Cisco Prime Infrastructure : Simplify the ordering, deployment, and lifecycle management of converged wired and wireless networks.
  • Cisco Prime Network Control System (NCS): Deliver converged user and access management for wired and wireless networks to support endpoint and policy visibility, with complete wireless lifecycle management.
  • Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution (LMS): Simplify Cisco Borderless Networks management and reduce costs with a management suite designed to work the way network operators do their jobs.
• Cisco Prime Assurance : Provide visibility across architectures to facilitate the effective collection, analysis, and troubleshooting of performance, application and end user wired and wireless sessions.
  • Cisco Prime Assurance Manager: (AM): Aggregate real-time information across multiple networks to deliver application-aware network performance visibility and troubleshooting
  • Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module (NAM): Gain application and performance visibility to optimize network resources, troubleshoot performance problems, and help ensure a consistent user experience.
• Cisco Prime Collaboration : Deliver integrated lifecycle management to support converged voice, video, and collaboration experience.
  • Cisco Prime Collaboration Manager (CM): Monitor and troubleshoot telepresence sessions and media paths in real time, taking the guesswork out of video collaboration management.
  • Cisco Prime Unified Communications Manager Suite (UCMS): Automate provisioning, proactively diagnose, and gain advanced statistics analysis and reporting through a single consolidated view of the Cisco Unified Communications environment

Learn More

• White Paper: Analysys Mason: Potential Business Benefits of Cisco Prime (PDF - 696 KB)
  Cisco Prime helps users achieve their business goals in being able to help address cost, quality and revenue requirements.
• White Paper: Cisco Prime Architecture (PDF - 468 KB)
  Learn about the Cisco Prime for Service Providers architecture, the foundation for a pre-integrated management application suite focused on delivering end-to-end experience lifecycle management.
• Solution Brief : Cisco Prime for IP Next Generation Networks

Products

• Cisco Prime for IP NGN
  Simplifies the design, provisioning, and management of carrier-grade networks by centralizing and automating service design, fulfillment, assurance, and performance analysis tasks
• Cisco Prime Network Registrar
  Provides integrated, scalable, reliable Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and IP Address Management (IPAM) services for both IPv4 and IPv6.
• Cisco Prime Optical
  A carrier-class, multi-technology management system that integrates the end-to-end management of traditional transport networks and new carrier packet transport networks.
• Cisco Prime Performance Manager
  Provides fast, easy, actionable information about Cisco and multivendor network devices, services, and technologies.
• Cisco Prime Provisioning
  Automate complex provisioning and diagnostic tasks using policy-driven workflows to produce consistent and reliable service deployments.
• Cisco Prime Fulfillment
  Implement efficient coordination of business and operational processes for rapid service design, creation, and delivery.
• Cisco Prime Network
  Empowers service providers to view, troubleshoot and manage their networks quickly and easily.
• SP Wi-Fi Service Manager for Cisco Prime
  Allows service providers to control, monetize, and personalize Wi-Fi offerings and provides cost-effective 3GPP mobile data offload capabilities to reduce traffic congestion.
• BNG Service Manager for Cisco Prime
  Allows service providers to gain greater visibility into customer broadband usage, validate available bandwidth, dynamically manage broadband performance, and rapidly roll out new broadband services and promotions.
• Cisco Prime Central for HCS Assurance
  A carrier-grade, extensible service assurance management platform for service providers deploying solutions composed of Cisco Unified Communications and collaboration applications as a service in a hosted or cloud environment as a part of Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution.