Cisco Managed Services Solution

Cisco Integrated Service Routers deliver highly secure concurrent services for WAN access to enterprise branch offices, small and medium-sized businesses, and remote workers. Historically, service providers offered leased-line, Frame Relay, ATM, MPLS VPN, and IPsec VPN services that included management of the router or customer premises equipment attached to the service provider network.

Today, service providers want to provide additional managed security services, including:

• Managed IPsec VPNs
• Managed firewall
• Managed  Network Address Translation (NAT)

These new services require a cost-effective network and service management platform for intermediate session routing, business services offered, and leased-line transport.

Key network elements include:

• Solid device management strategy
• Service provisioning
• Fault management
• Service-level agreement monitoring for value-added services

Cisco Managed Services Solution

Customers prefer a proven turn-key solution that includes both system software and associated advanced services. The Cisco Managed Services Solution provides comprehensive network management for both software and services to deploy managed security services with Cisco Integrated Services Routers. Important benefits for service providers include:

• Managed Service Lifecycle Model: Lowers costs and reduces time to market
• Software Subscription Pricing: Cisco shares the investment risk through pay-as-you grow pricing
• Service Delivery Platform: Lowers total cost of ownership by providing a management platform and roadmap to including additional managed services

This solution focuses on the service-model approach to management, which focuses on the service lifecycle, measures service objectives, and layers service intelligence and policy for IP Next-Generation Network managed-security services.

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   Cisco Managed Services Solution Data Sheet