Borderless Networks

Network Architecture is the technical architecture that allows organizations to connect anyone, anywhere, anytime, and on any device - securely, reliably, and seamlessly. It is built on an infrastructure of scalable and resilient hardware and software. Components of the architecture come together to build network systems that span your organization from network access to the cloud. Intelligent network, endpoint, and user services provide the flexibility, speed, and scale to support new devices, applications, and deployment models.

Borderless Network Services are the advanced, differentiated capabilities that Cisco Borderless Networks delivers across its routing, switching, security, wireless, and WAN optimization portfolios. Investing in these areas provides organizations with superior business flexibility and increased competitive advantage.

Borderless Network Services include:

Mobility

Cisco Motion delivers seamless mobility and reliable, mission-critical, wireless access to improve workforce productivity. It also provides automated detection, classification, source location, and mitigation of wireless interference.

• Use CleanAir, based on application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) technology, to mitigate RF interference and protect performance.
• Apply ClientLink technology to see increases of up to 27 percent in overall channel capacity and 65 percent in average throughput for 802.11a/g clients.
• Deliver superior quality multi-cast video over wireless networks with VideoStream.
• Help increase deployment efficiencies, scalability, and performance with the Cisco Wireless LAN Planning and Design Service. Read Data Sheet .
  
• Visit Design Zone for Unified Access to view related Cisco Validated Design (CVD) guides.

Energy Management

Cisco EnergyWise measures, controls, and reports energy usage on IT and non-IT devices to reduce energy costs and improve efficiency.

• Realize energy savings of up to 33 percent.
• Access a broad ecosystem through open APIs and SDKs for all energy management needs.
• Increase energy efficiency across IT operations and facilities with Cisco Services for Energy Management.

Security

Cisco SecureX, a context-aware security architecture, is based on:

• Context aware policy that allows customers to easily define and manage business relevant security policies.
• Context aware enforcement that implements consistent, granular policies based on user identity, device information, and other relevant attributes.
• The network as a trusted foundation with extensive visibility, context, and control.
• Visit Design Zone for Security to view related Cisco Validated Design (CVD) guides.

Cisco SecureX core components include:

• Cisco Security Intelligence Operations (SIO) for more effective security with global threat correlation and real time updates.
• AnyConnect and TrustSec to help connect mobile and endpoint devices to the network and cloud environments securely with context aware policies and enforcement.

Application Performance

Cisco Application Velocity improves the speed and availability of any application to increase business continuity and employee productivity.

• Accelerate applications and optimize your WAN with Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) on Cisco ISR G2 Services Ready Engine (SRE) modules.
• Increase application survivability with UCS Express.
• Visit Design Zone for Application Velocity to view related Cisco Validated Design (CVD) guides.

Multimedia Optimization

An enterprise medianet scales the network for and prioritizes video, collaboration and business applications multimedia with any device to optimize user experience.

• Reduce your video deployment time, to just minutes using use pre-installed configurations with auto configuration.
• Enhance visibility into network conditions that affect the quality of applications, particularly video, with Media Monitoring.
• Efficiently deliver video performance, quality, and scalability from wired to wireless networks with Cisco VideoStream technology.
• Simplify and accelerate troubleshooting of video, voice and data applications with enhanced visibility into the network.
• Prepare your network environment to evolve to a medianet with the Cisco Medianet Readiness Assessment Service.
• Visit Design Zone for Video to view related Cisco Validated Design (CVD) guides.

Management

Cisco's management solutions empower IT departments to more effectively deploy, manage, and troubleshoot the network and the services that it delivers.

• Integrate management operations across architectures, networks, and services with the Cisco Prime for Enterprise strategy and portfolio of management products that help increase IT productivity and reduce operations costs.
• Simplify the management of Borderless Networks with Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution (LMS) and achieve consistent application and performance visibility with Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module (NAM).
• Easily manage and quickly troubleshoot end-to-end video collaboration, including TelePresence: Borderless Networks with Cisco Prime Collaboration Manager (CM).
• Gain converged user and access, and identity management for wired and wireless endpoint visibility with complete wireless lifecycle operations from the Cisco Prime Network Control System (NCS).